'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education:
'"I read "Robinson Crusoe" and a few other favourite boys' books [...] After these the most readable I could find was Rollin's "Ancient History". His narratives opened a new world [...] [which] I regarded as remote from Tunstall and England as those other worlds I read of in Dick's "Christian Philosopher," which book I found in the library too ... Then I read Milton's "Paradise Lost", Klopstock's "Messiah", and later on, Pollock's "Course of Time", and Gilfillan's "Bards of the Bible".These books may look a strange assortment for a boy of fourteen or fifteen to read, but [...] they just happened to fall into my hands"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Shaw Print: Book
'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched his harp and nations heard, entranced/ As some vast river of unfailing source/ Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his number flowed/ And op'ed new fountains in the human heart...'; [total = 86 lines]
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842:
'I have read through Pollock's Course of Time, -- & I confess it appeared to me an
extroardinary [sic] work for a young poet -- full of grand conceptions half formed -- & tracked
everywhere with unequal staggering footsteps of genius.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'Pollock, I must say, has written a handsome and discriminating notice; he thinks too well of the "Pavilion"; but most of what he says is good as criticism and very kindly said.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Newspaper
‘I have also long ponder’d on a Poem, which could I execute up to my conception, would perhaps
take rank with Pollock’s [sic] Course of Time.’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Book
