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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	?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
	1850-1899	[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'	George Eliot [pseud]	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the divine Eumaeus is so worthy a man, that I overlook the ...	Catherine Talbot	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the traveller Ulysses, who was an observer of men and mann...	Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu	Homer	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
	1700-1799	Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read a...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Homer	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
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: '1/2 past 4. I have been reading Cowpers Homer & much satisfaction has the perusal afforded me. a quotation...	Robert Southey	William Cowper	The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into En...	Print: Book

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