Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Muir

 

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1900-1945'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and gre...Edwin Muir Great ThoughtsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...Edwin Muir John Keats'Ode to a Nightingale'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...Edwin Muir Alfred Lord Tennyson'The Lotus Eaters'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...Edwin Muir Percy Bysshe Shelley'Ode to the West Wind'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...Edwin Muir Algernon Charles Swinburne'Atalanta in Calydon'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti...Edwin Muir Wiliam Wordsworth'The Solitary Reaper'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Muir] wrote to Stephen Spender in the summer of 1944 that Bowra's book had made him realise that he had been writing...Edwin Muir C. Maurice BowraThe Heritage of SymbolismPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Muir] recalls... that his father conducted a little service in the farmhouse each week: "Every Sunday night he gathe...The Bible Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val...Edwin Muir [study of David Hume]Print: Book
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1900-1945
'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val...Edwin Muir Christopher MarlowePrint: Book
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1900-1945
'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val...Edwin Muir George CrabbePrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...Edwin Muir Henri BergsonPrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...Edwin Muir [probably] Georges-Eugene SorelPrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...Edwin Muir Havelock EllisPrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...Edwin Muir John GalsworthyPrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...Edwin Muir Joseph ConradPrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...Edwin Muir Edward Morgan ForsterPrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...Edwin Muir James JoycePrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...Edwin Muir David Herbert LawrencePrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de...Edwin Muir Ezra Poundarticle in The New AgePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Id...Edwin Muir Friedrich NietzscheThe Twilight of the IdolsPrint: Book
1900-1945[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Id...Edwin Muir Friedrich NietzscheEcce HomoPrint: Book
1850-1899'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained ...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Christian WorldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant di...Edwin Muir [unknown][volume about theological debate]Print: Book
1850-1899'There was a novel about young women, which I think now must have been "Sense and Sensibility": I could make nothing o...Edwin Muir Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1850-1899'And the monthly parts of "The Scots Worthies" which my father had carried with him from Sanday, and which were now in...Edwin Muir John HowieThe Scots WorthiesPrint: Serial / periodical, bound by father into a volume
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [unknown][school books]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [n/a]The People's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [n/a]The People's FriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Christian HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [unknown]Sunday StoriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Penny MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita...Edwin Muir [unknown][story]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita...Edwin Muir Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Suther...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Police NewsPrint: Newspaper
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1900-1945
'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
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1900-1945
'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum...Edwin Muir [n/a]ChumsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E...Edwin Muir [n/a][School history book]Print: Book
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E...Edwin Muir Felicia Dorothea HemansCasabiancaPrint: Book
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E...Edwin Muir Thomas CampbellLord Ullin's DaughterPrint: Book
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E...Edwin Muir Henry Wadsworth LongfellowExcelsiorPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...Edwin Muir William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...Edwin Muir George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
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1900-1945
'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...Edwin Muir John KeatsThe Eve of Saint AgnesPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...Edwin Muir Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonais: An elegy on the death of John KeatsPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...Edwin Muir Robert BrowningThe Pied Piper of HamelinPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...Edwin Muir Matthew ArnoldTristram and IseultPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w...Edwin Muir Matthew Arnold[selection of poems]Print: Book
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1900-1945
'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w...Edwin Muir William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w...Edwin Muir William MorrisThe Earthly ParadisePrint: Book
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'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but ...Edwin Muir [unknown][book on Wallace and Bruce]Print: Book
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1900-1945
'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ...Edwin Muir Victor HugoNotre Dame de ParisPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ...Edwin Muir Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ...Edwin Muir Thomas CarlyleFrench RevolutionPrint: Book
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1900-1945
'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac is...Edwin Muir [unknown][story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Islands]Print: Serial / periodical, almanac
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T...Edwin Muir [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T...Edwin Muir John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T...Edwin Muir Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T...Edwin Muir Robert Michael BallantyneHudson Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'but I was reading "Les Miserables", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.'Edwin Muir Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book

 

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