| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Growing up in extreme poverty in East London, Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand "Iliad" and was dazzled: "What a revel... | Will Crooks | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the odes of Anacreon, and then commenced the Iliad.... | Thomas Cooper | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "[in Aug. 1787 Dorothy Wordsworth] reported that 'I am at present [reading] the Iliad' ... " | Dorothy Wordsworth | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In reading the "Odyssey" last night among many curious passages these two lines I think applicable to the present tim... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read 2 books of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Pope.' | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Came home about 8.10. Read part of Homer's "Odyssey".' | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper read the 13th book of Homer's "Odyssey", wherein I think the soliloquy which Ulysses makes when he finds... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day... In reading Homer's "Odyssey", I think the character which Menelaus gives Telemachus of Ulysses, wh... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Alexander Pope, which I like very well, the language being ... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gruppe read us a translation of one of the Homeric Hymns - Aphrodite - which is really beautiful. It is a sort of Geg... | [Professor] Gruppe | Homer | [hymn to Aphrodite] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complet... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"... | Thomas Carter | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"... | Thomas Carter | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer w... | James Lackington | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Homer | unknown | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the Iliad, book III'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | [book IV - of Iliad?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the div... | Catherine Talbot | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with ... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | Homer | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the penult of the year 1819 I reached the last line of the "Iliad". To speak of the merits of the Maeonian Bard ... | Robert Mitchell | Homer | The Iliad | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [An account of the boy's secret reading, and how his parents only found out when he asked a question about his reading]. | [a boy known to Elizabeth Hamilton] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read over your Homer here with an infinite pleasure, and find several little passages explained, that I did not bef... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Iliad | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the tr... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Hom... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea... | Thomas Carlyle | Homer | The Iliad / Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining and Instructive... | William Blake | Homer | unknown | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was ver... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Blake and I read every Evening that copy of the Iliad which your namesake of St Paul's was so good as to send me, com... | William Blake | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | [Iliad / Odyssey] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Homer and writes' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julie - S reads Homer' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes Homer's Hymns' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes his translation of Homer's hymn to Mercury' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | 'Hymn to Mercury' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Armata - read Homer' | Mary Shelley | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Old plays' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 2 books of Homer' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Homer | [probably] Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,... | Miss V[-] | Homer | Odyssey and Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of Homer, whom he venerated as the prince of poets, Johnson remarked that the advice given to Diomed by his ... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| | 'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like... | Allan Ramsay | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the u... | Robert Southey | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the u... | Robert Southey | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Homer | | Print: Book |