√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Li... | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love') | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which w... | William Wordsworth | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the age of five she was caught by her father reading Dryden: 'I dropt my Book and burst into Tears'. However, inst... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | John Dryden | Virgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she was reading Dryden's "Don Sebastian", which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron a question. He said angri... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | John Dryden | Don Sebastian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dryden's comedy of the Spanish Fryar, was not much pleased with it.' | Joseph Hunter | John Dryden | The Spanish Fryar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read several of Dryden's original Poems. The sudden transition from his "Funeral Lines on Oliver Cromwell", to his "... | Thomas Green | John Dryden | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Dryden's Dedication to his "Translations of Juvenal's Satires":--a stranger, rambling composition...' | Thomas Green | John Dryden | The satires of Juvenalis, translated into English | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...' | Thomas Green | John Dryden | Prose Works, ed. Malone | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of D... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Dryden | [Tales from Chaucer] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way and find it a most pleasant and fine-writ play.' | Samuel Pepys | John Dryden | The Rival Ladies | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.' | Samuel Pepys | John Dryden | The Rival Ladys | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Dri... | Samuel Pepys | John Dryden | Annus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an historical poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about... | | John Dryden | A defence of an essay | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6 August 1923: 'We went over to Charleston yesterday [...] Clive was sitting in the drawing room window reading... | Clive Bell | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his... | Edith Sitwell | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, a... | Laetitia van Lewen | John Dryden | Alexander's Feast | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of D... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | The Conquest of Granada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | An Essay of Heroic Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Q... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Preface, The Maiden Queen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | John Dryden | Absalom and Achitophel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | John Dryden | [preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in... | Robert Dodsley | John Dryden | 'Ode on St Cecilia's Day' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Samuel Johnson | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| | '20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | John Dryden | Song for St. Cecilia's Day | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | 'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | John Dryden | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'Drydens denunciation of Time & Space is by no means so rid... | Robert Southey | John Dryden | Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | John Dryden | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father:
'"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admire... | Ralph Milbanke | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, a... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | John Dryden | Don Sebastian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against S... | Edward Pordage | John Dryden | The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against S... | Edward Pordage | John Dryden | Epistle to the Whigs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from John Dryden's 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrate... | Edward Pordage | John Dryden | 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. Written after the Celebration of his Funerall' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from John Dryden's The Second Part of Absalom and... | Edward Pordage | John Dryden | The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a Poem | Print: Book |