√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 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 Thoughts | Print: 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 Bowra | The Heritage of Symbolism | Print: 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 |
| 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 | Christopher Marlowe | | 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 | George Crabbe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | [probably] Georges-Eugene Sorel | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Havelock Ellis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | John Galsworthy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Joseph Conrad | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Edward Morgan Forster | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | James Joyce | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Ezra Pound | article in The New Age | Print: 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 Nietzsche | The Twilight of the Idols | Print: 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 Nietzsche | Ecce Homo | Print: 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 World | Print: 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 Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: 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 Howie | The Scots Worthies | Print: 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 Journal | Print: 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 Friend | Print: 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 Herald | Print: 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 Stories | Print: 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 Magazine | Print: 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 Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 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 Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 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] | Chums | Print: 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 Hemans | Casabianca | 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 | Thomas Campbell | Lord Ullin's Daughter | 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 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Excelsior | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Keats | The Eve of Saint Agnes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Shelley | Adonais: An elegy on the death of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Arnold | Tristram and Iseult | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 |
| 1850-1899 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 Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '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 |
| 1850-1899 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 Hugo | Notre Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Carlyle | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 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 Bible | Print: 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 Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: 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 Ballantyne | Hudson Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America | Print: 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 Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |