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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(1) '... through reading Maeterlinck, to improve my French, too late at night, I have developed a penchant for mystical philosophy' (2) 'My other reading — in French — ...Clive Staples Lewis Maurice MaeterlinckL'oiseau bleu Feerie en cinq actes et dix tableauxPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'The book you refer to is "How to Form a Literary Taste" by Arnold Bennett: the edition is pretty but the book is not of any value. The very title — as if you set o...Clive Staples Lewis Arnold BennettLiterary Taste: How to Form It with Detailed Instr...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have read today ... some 10 pages of "Tristram Shandy" and am wondering whether I like it. It is certainly the maddest book ever written.... It gives you the imp...Clive Staples Lewis Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945'I was very sorry to hear about the death of "A Student in arms", whose book I read last holidays as you may remember. I never met anything exactly like it before, it i...Clive Staples Lewis Donald HankeyA Student in ArmsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nothing in it however, [ie "A Student in Arms"], if I remember aright, quite reaches the level of this last article, a wise and charming piece of work - and doubly so ...Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey'Don't Worry'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I like last week's "Romance" by the Student in Arms very much - in some ways as much as the other, tho' perhaps you will not agree with me.'Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey'Romance'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'That is rather a fine article on Hakluyt in this week's Literary Supplement and a good deal of it might stand as an apology - in the Newman sense of course — for my ho...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'... remember that nearly all your reading is confined to about 150 years of one particular country.... And so, if you suddenly go back to an Anglo-Saxon gleeman's lay,...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]BeowulfPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am reading at present, what do you think? Our own friend "Pilgrim's Progress". It is one of those books that are usually read too early to appreciate, and perhap...Clive Staples Lewis John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a matter of fact I am at present reading a real "old french" romance "The High History of the Holy Graal" translated in the lovely "Temple Classics". If I dared to ...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]The High History of the Holy GraalPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am also reading Chaucer's minor poems ("World's Classics", a scrubby edition but the only one I can find) and am half way through "The House of Fame", a dream poem h...Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CreseydePrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Your verdict upon Macdonald's tale was worthy of so shrewd and serious a gentleman as yourself...' (2) 'And talking about books I am surprised that you don't say m...Clive Staples Lewis George MacdonaldThe Golden KeyPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I wonder does the "Wayfarer" series publish my latest discovery - the most glorious novel (almost) that I have ever read.... It is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House wit...Clive Staples Lewis Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Unfortunately we have not got a complete set of Scott here - only odd Everyman copies.... What is "Guy Mannering" like? The alternative title of "The Astrologer" s...Clive Staples Lewis Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The AstrologerPrint: Book
1900-1945'We have had a book of Yeats' prose out of the library, and this has revived my taste for things Gaelic and mystic. Ask Mullan's if he knows a book called "The Rosacrut...Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945(1) ' ... I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master of University.... What pleased me most was the masses upon masses of books in his house: among which...Clive Staples Lewis Lucius ApuleiusThe Story of Cupid and PsychePrint: Book
1900-1945'After wandering about the place and buying a second-hand copy of the "Gesta Romanorum" (of which more anon) I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master o...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]Gesta RomanorumPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) '... you simply must read this book of Maeterlinck's on death. It is full of the most interesting stuff, and even when you don't believe his theories they always ha...Clive Staples Lewis Maurice MaeterlinckLa MortPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Just before supper I finished the 2nd volume of Mackail's "Life of W.M." There is nothing nicer than to lay aside a book with a certain satisfaction at getting it ...Clive Staples Lewis John William MackailThe Life of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Having finished Morris I am reading a silly book of Anstey's "The Talking Horse" before settling down to Macaulay. I never heard you speak of Anstey, but you should re...Clive Staples Lewis F. AnsteyThe Talking Horse and Other TalesPrint: Book


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