√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ... | Wilfred Owen | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ... | Wilfred Owen | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, no... | Wilfred Owen | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, no... | Wilfred Owen | John Keats | 'Lamia' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, no... | Wilfred Owen | Sidney Colvin | Life Of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | | [Elizabethan and Medieval Poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | | [literary biographies] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | | [French books and books about French] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | | [books on history, classics and botany] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a dev... | Wilfred Owen | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a dev... | Wilfred Owen | | [Scripture Union notes on the Bible] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict... | Wilfred Owen | | [texts on science / religion debate] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict... | Wilfred Owen | | [a Christian response to Darwinism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict... | Wilfred Owen | John Keats | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict... | Wilfred Owen | William Michael Rossetti | Life of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which... | Wilfred Owen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which... | Wilfred Owen | | [biography of Shelley] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another, much less predictable [than that of Shelley] influence on Owen's thinking at Dunsden and much later began in... | Wilfred Owen | Harold Monro | Before Dawn: Poems and Impressions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: "Rossetti guid... | Wilfred Owen | William Michael Rossetti | Life of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Laurent Tailhade] must have lent him one of his two volumes of collected poems because Owen soon started a translati... | Wilfred Owen | Laurent Tailhade | Poemes elegiaques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Alfred de Vigny | Chatterton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Ernest Renan | Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Gustave Flaubert | La Tentation de saint Antoine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Gustave Flaubert | Salammbo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are severa... | Wilfred Owen | Paul Verlaine | 'Mon Reve Familier' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are severa... | Wilfred Owen | | [anthologies of French poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that ... | Wilfred Owen | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems and Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that ... | Wilfred Owen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Owen] bought [Harold] Monro's latest book, "Children of Love", and became a familiar visitor [at the Poetry Bookshop... | Wilfred Owen | Harold Monro | Children of Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ... | Wilfred Owen | William Butler Yeats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ... | Wilfred Owen | Rabindranath Tagore | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ... | Wilfred Owen | Alfred Edward Housman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Wilfred Owen | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr... | Wilfred Owen | Harold Monro | Strange Meetings | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr... | Wilfred Owen | | Georgian Poetry 1916-1917 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr... | Wilfred Owen | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[that civilians could believe soldiers were happy in the trenches] is evident from plenty of civilian verse, includin... | Wilfred Owen | John Oxenham [pseud.] | Vision Splendid, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[another of Owen's poetic influences was] Brooke's friend W.W. Gibson, whose "Battle" (1915) Owen read in December [1... | Wilfred Owen | W.W. Gibson | Battle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such pa... | Wilfred Owen | Henri Barbusse | Under Fire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen met H.G. Wells in November, one of the leading writers about the war and its politics, an advocate of internatio... | Wilfred Owen | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".' | Wilfred Owen | Bion of Smyrna | 'Epitaph on Adonis' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".' | Wilfred Owen | Moschus | 'Epitaph on Bion' | Print: Book |