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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	[Iliad / Odyssey]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin...	Anne Lutton	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...	Frances Power Cobbe	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". I also read Mr. Hervey's "Theron and...	Thomas Carter	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt i...	Samuel Bamford	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 14 March 1808: 'Began reading the "Odyssey" of Homer in Pope's translation. Delighted with it.'	Mary Berry	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ...	Thomas Carlyle	Alexander Pope	The Iliad / Odyssey of Homer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ...	Thomas Carlyle	Homer	The Iliad / Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... an "Odyssey" or two ...'	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'	Mary Shelley	Alexander Pope	Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'	Mary Shelley	Alexander Pope	Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Saturday August 19th. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.'	Claire Clairmont	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...	Elizabeth Barrett	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Homer - Old plays'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read 2 books of Homer'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'	Mary Shelley	Homer	[probably] Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book

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