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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
 
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers mentioned use of copy of Richardson's Pamela by grocer ...George Gordon Lord Byron [poetry]Unknown
1900-1945'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.Katherine Mansfield [poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher Robert Burns[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'...he wrote a poetical piece in my album in an almost unpremeditated manner; & finding it applicable to my History of Ecton, I have there printed it, entitled 'know thys...John Cole [poetry]Manuscript: Handwritten in Album
1800-1849'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarborough Album, and in soliciting contributions of a poe...John Cole Malvina [pseud.][poetry]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: "Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was h...Anne Tibble John Clare[poetry]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Spent half an hour reading Flecker - he's wonderful'.Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'I felt incapable of doing any Zoo [zoology preparation for mid-school exams] so read Flecker's poetry all night! Felt immensely cheered up by it, but very wicked!'Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it. He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can understand it!'Hilary Spalding Ovid[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read Flecker most of evening and am more and more convinced that his poetry is wonderful'.Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Edith Sitwell[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell unknown Nichols[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Siegfried Sassoon[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Robert Graves[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Thomas Stearns Eliot[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mary Lepel Hervey, although Pope's friend before her marriage,disparaged the poet in her mature correspondence. Attributing his polished style to Lord Bolingbroke's infl...Mary Lepel Hervey Alexander Pope[poetry]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boot...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Thomas Campbell[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boot...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Ossian (pseud.)[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I support him against all other poets. You may easily g...Elizabeth Smith Homer[poetry]Print: Book


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