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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945‘I have finished and laid by "The Egoist". I see now that Meredith belongs to that class of novelists with whom I do not usually get on so well (e.g. Dickens), who cr...Charles Hamilton Sorley George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I have just been censoring letters: which hardly puts one in the mood for writing … The reading of a hundred letters has brought home to me one need. Could you send ...Charles Hamilton Sorley [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945‘I have only just arrived here: the last ten days having been occupied in reading "The Egoist" in the Orderly Room at Moore [Barracks, Shorncliffe]. It was my sad fat...Charles Hamilton Sorley George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I have read [Henry] Taylor’s Philip Van Artevelde. It is admirable.’Hartley Coleridge Henry TaylorPhilip van ArteveldePrint: Book
1900-1945‘I have started to read again, having read nothing all the closing months of last year. I have discovered a man called D. H. Lawrence who knows the way to write, and...Charles Hamilton Sorley David Herbert Lawrence[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849‘I hope Mr. Wordsworth feels some consolation in the complete victory of his poetic fame. He may at least feel assured, that no Great Poet ever lived to see his name of...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I know very few people in Leeds. ... The walls of course now plastered with Election puffs and squibs, the newspapers rancorous against one another, but, as far as I c...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][Local posters and newspapers in Leeds related to ...Print: Poster
1900-1945‘I never visited this dungeon without repeating from Young’s “Night Thoughts”, often in my pocket, the just words, ”Dreadful post of observation! Darker every hour.”' ...Edmund Blunden Edward YoungThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,...Print: Book
1900-1945‘I rec your play and Annual. Thank you very much. The play is gorgeous, one of the chiefest pleasures of my leave days; and for this I thank you indeed. The ideas are...Isaac Rosenberg Robert Calverley Trevelyan[plays]Print: Book
1800-1849‘I received the Quarterly [Review] from Mr. Murray. If praise could do me any good, there is enough of it: but I know nothing of that “overweening worship of Wordsworth...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][Review of Hartley Coleridge's 1833 Poems in The Q...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘I saw Rupert Brooke’s death in the "Morning Post". The "Morning Post", which has always hitherto disapproved of him, is now loud in its praises because he has confor...Charles Hamilton Sorley Rupert Brooke[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘I saw Rupert Brooke’s death in the "Morning Post". The "Morning Post", which has always hitherto disapproved of him, is now loud in its praises because he has confor...Charles Hamilton Sorley The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘I shall be glad to be out of the army. The best thing for me is brainwork again of some kind. I need something to fix my wandering thought in the morning … But must ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I think we are quite near [departure for] the front—the fighting line, but at least I have control enough of my mind to think very little of this. The only thought t...Ivor Bertie Gurney Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945‘I was very glad to get your parcel in the week, the cake was fine, & so were the fags. Im sure it was very good of you to send them. I believe it was Monday that I...George Adcock Weston Burton ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Indeed you are darlings of a special sort. The birthday book of my beloved William [Wordsworth] is charming, and you know what I think of the oatcake and scones you ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Adelaide WordsworthWordsworth Birthday BookPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s "Essays", and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no fic...Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsWhat is Coming: A Forecast of Things after the WarPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no ficti...Wilfred Owen William HazlittEssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no ficti...Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsThe Wife of Sir Isaac HarmanPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by [J.] A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no ...Wilfred Owen J. A. K. ThomsonThe Greek Tradition: Essays in the Reconstruction ...Print: Book


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