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Walter Raleigh
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Charles Dickens : unknown
Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walter Raleigh] has just re-discovered Dickens -- having not touched him for years and approached him critically, he has now found himself caught up in a flame of love and admiration ...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Print: Book
Anthony Trollope : unknown
'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying abed reading Trollope, "I'm afraid it's no use anyone telling me that Thackeray is a better novelist than Trollope."'
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Christina Rossetti : poems
'Writing to his sister on 11 January 1892 ... [Walter Raleigh] declared: "I have been reading Christina Rossetti -- three or four of her poems, like those of her brother, make a cheap fool of [Robert] Browning ... I think she is the best poet alive."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Castle of Otranto
'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well may the blood" says an expiring viscount to a peasant youth who has fallen in love with a countess and been recognised by a friar as his son, the friar thereupon proving himself a duke, and the detection of his son arising from a markt on the son's neck, which was being bared for execution, - "well may the blood which has so lately traced itself to its source boil over in the veins". (The boy had shown signs of annoyance.) I never saw anything like that before.The killing and stabbing and the wonderment produced as to why all the characters stay about the old castle, (most of them have no business there), when at least three quarters are searching for the blood of the other three quarters for monetary reasonsor for none! There are three discoveries, I think of long lost children and no end of supernaturalism; all produces a gorgeous effect.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Silvio Pellico : Prisons
'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
n/a : [newspaper]
'I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Newspaper
James Martineau : Types of Ethical Theory
'I am reading Martineau ["Types of Ethical Theory"] and like it, indeed I think I shall leave of writing this and go on.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
William Wordsworth : [unknown]
'I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian associations Wordsworth's love for nature.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Arthur Helps : Realmah
'I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to "set a paper" on that book and am quite unprepared to ask a single question about it. The last generation of readers was so fond of what is elegant.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Walt Whitman : [unknown]
'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus establishing myself as a (qualified) Whitmaniac.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Robert Louis Stevenson : The Black Arrow
'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last book which came out a few days ago, which I bought and read this afternoon (I had a meddlesome red pencil with which I slightly disfigured it) and which I think spendidly spirited.' [followed by a judgment on the book]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
[unknown] : [Life of Scott]
'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Samuel Rogers : Pleasures of Memory
'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Plato : Banquet
'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Silvio Pellico : Prisons
'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
George Eliot : Adam Bede
'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
[unknown] : [French novel]
'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
[unknown] : [dramatists' works]
'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus establishing myself as a (qualified) Whitmaniac.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
[unknown] : [Roman History]
'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last book which came out a few days ago, which I bought and read this afternoon (I had a meddlesome red pencil with which I slightly disfigured it) and which I think spendidly spirited.' [followed by a judgment on the book]
