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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‘You letter gave me great pleasure; and for once I took your advice on a matter of books, to the extent of buying that World’s Classics Selection you mentioned (I hav...Ivor Bertie Gurney William PeacockEnglish Prose from Mandeville to RuskinPrint: Book
1900-1945‘You mention Ian Hay and MacGill. I had a glance at Ian Hay, and wished I could read it, but had to leave it. What I saw was very good indeed … By the way have you ev...Ivor Bertie Gurney Ian HayThe First Hundred ThousandPrint: Book
1900-1945‘You mention Ian Hay and MacGill. I had a glance at Ian Hay, and wished I could read it, but had to leave it. What I saw was very good indeed … By the way have you ev...Ivor Bertie Gurney William Henry DaviesAutobiography of a Super-TrampPrint: Book
1800-1849‘You perhaps recollect the only rememberable lines in Prior’s Solomon – that very respectable poem, which nevertheless, is rather too like one of Mrs. Fry’s Newgate-mad...Hartley Coleridge Matthew PriorSolomon on the Vanity of the WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849‘You probably have little time for literary labours or I should advise you to write for the Quarterly Theological. It is a very staunch, orthodox work – not ultra in po...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Re...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘You probably saw the Tea-table in B[lackwood's Magazine]. but it does not look so well in print as it sounded when Elizabeth Warde listen’d to it. Ladies praise makes ...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Your book—my book [Davies, "Child Lovers"] has just arrived, and it is finished. Only to increasing certainty that Davies was once an exquisite poet—of which time he...Ivor Bertie Gurney William Henry DaviesChild LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your book—my book [Davies, "Child Lovers"] has just arrived, and it is finished. Only to increasing certainty that Davies was once an exquisite poet—of which time he...Ivor Bertie Gurney Times Literary SupplementPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Your Georgian B. has arrived at last; many many thanks. I pounced on King Lear’s Wife, and though it was not more than I expected, it was not less. The only fault I ...Isaac Rosenberg Gordon BottomleyKing Lear's WifePrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your Georgian B. has arrived at last; many many thanks. I pounced on King Lear’s Wife, and though it was not more than I expected, it was not less. The only fault I ...Isaac Rosenberg Rupert BrookeCloudsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg Lucretius De Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg William ShakespeareunspecifiedPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg Gordon Bottomley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg Thomas Sturge Moore[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg H. G. Wells[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I dared to ask for all these ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Walt Whitman(Poems)Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I dared to ask for all these ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Percy Bysshe Shelley(Poems)Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I dared to ask for all these ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Ian Hay'Pip': A Romance of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945‘[ … ]they have made me billet warden, which sounds grand, and is grand; as it leaves me time and enough to spare for reading. No new books can come to me now, as my ...Ivor Bertie Gurney AeschylusProméthée (or Prométheus) enchaînéPrint: Book
1800-1849‘[William] Blackwood expresses much admiration of the Fletcher Letters, but thinks their republication at this time would not be just the thing - requests me to use my ...William Blackwood Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLetters to Mr. Justice Fletcher on the Irish Quest...Print: Newspaper


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