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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Richard Hillyer

 

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Alfred Lord Tennyson : 

'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it had 'Poet Laureate' printed on the title page: the coloured words flashed out and entranced my fancy... my dormant imagination opened like a flower in the sun".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hillyer      Print: Book

  

 : Half Hours With Best Authors

'At a second-hand stall, [Richard Hillyer] bought a four volume Half Hours with Best Authors. One could dismiss it as a potted Anglocentric collection of snippets by dead writers, but as Hilyer explained: "The all important thing was that between the battered covers were bits and pieces from vast range of literature, people I had always wanted to read, and others I had never heard of, but standing in full tradition and waiting to be discovered. It is easy to talk of epochs in a life, events which are permanent, and far-reaching, enough to be called that are rare, but this was one. The dilapidated old book opened to me the sweep and grandeur of English literature better than most professional teachers would have done".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hillyer      Print: Book

 

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