| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Theocritus | "Idyll I" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations o... | Savile Morton and Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusa... | Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | Hylas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusa... | Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | The Island of Cos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusa... | Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | The Syracusan Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'We were sitting (1857 or so) late at night in the Farr... | Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | Hylas | Print: Book |