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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ...	John Masefield	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	The Dying Swan	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ...	John Masefield	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Evangeline	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ...	John Masefield	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Hiawatha	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" on the Conway and was soon enraptured...	John Masefield	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his ...	John Masefield	Thomas Malory	Morte d'Arthur	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...	John Masefield	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Parliament of Fowls	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...	John Masefield	John Milton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...	John Masefield	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...	John Masefield	John Keats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already...	John Masefield	Herman Melville	The Green Hand	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already...	John Masefield	Herman Melville	Moby Dick	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim...	John Masefield	George du Maurier	Trilby	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim...	John Masefield	Alexandre Dumas (pere)	The Three Musketeers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim...	John Masefield	Laurence Sterne	A Sentimental Journey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim...	John Masefield	Charles Darwin	The Origin of Species	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede...	John Masefield	George du Maurier	Peter Ibbetson	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede...	John Masefield	Francois Villon		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede...	John Masefield	Alfred Louis Charles de Musset		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an...	John Masefield	Thomas de Quincey	Confessions of an English Opium Eater	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ...	John Masefield	Richard Steele	[essays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ...	John Masefield	Joseph Addison	[essays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ...	John Masefield	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known exis...	John Masefield	Percy Bysshe Shelley	The Revolt of Islam	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Edward Fitzgerald		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	George Meredith		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Dante Gabriel Rossetti		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Matthew Arnold		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Robert Browning		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Gustave Flaubert		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Guy de Maupassant		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Prosper Merimee		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...	John Masefield	Walter Pater		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi...	John Masefield	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi...	John Masefield	Robert Louis Stevenson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi...	John Masefield	William Morris		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rh...	John Masefield	Algernon Charles Swinburne	Chastelard	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rh...	John Masefield	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[poem on the death of Baudelaire]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose discip...	John Masefield	Wiliam Butler Yeats	[unknown]	Print: Book

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