| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Lamia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Isabella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Eve of St Agnes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that beco... | V.W. Garratt | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 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 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | John Keats | 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | John Keats | 'The Eve of St Agnes' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | John Keats | [a minor poem] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | John Keats | [unknown, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | John Keats | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Alfred Baker Strettell | John Keats | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve... | Alice Thompson | John Keats | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris... | Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely ... | Edmund Gosse | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonema... | Wilfred Pickles | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Letter 202 to Ralph Hodges, Woodstock, N.Y., Aug 15 1939:
'I?ve done lots of work ? finished this small piece for Tor... | Benjamin Britten | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'. | Lawrence Durrell | John Keats | [unknown] | 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 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | John Keats | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 14. "To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! It requres a luckier star than mine! It will never be.... | Katherine Mansfield | John Keats | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Sept. 26th. [...] Read Keats' Endymion.
[...]
'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...]... | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday October 15th. [...] Read the Isabella or Pot of Basil by Keats [quotes four lines from
stanza 10].'
... | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Isabella, or the Pot of Basil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Nov. 8th. [...] Read Lamia by Keats.' | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Lamia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Nov. 10th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.' | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Feb. 27th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.' | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hyperion aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems' | Mary Shelley | John Keats | Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | John Keats | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906:
'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is ... | Virginia Stephen | John Keats | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817)
"negative capabil... | Antonia White | John Keats | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'. | Antonia White | John Keats | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the ... | Basil Nicholson | John Keats | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Keats letters coming up in a belated and dawdling train. His letter to [Charles Armitage] Brown from Napl... | Harold Nicolson | John Keats | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | John Keats | | 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 | '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 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Siegfried Sassoon | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | John Keats | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | John Keats | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the ... | Oscar Wilde | John Keats | Sonnet in Blue | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Helen Rawlings | John Keats | 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Keats | Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Howard R. Smith | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Blanche Ridges | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Elizabeth Edminson | John Keats | [sonnets] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Alfred Rawlings | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Elizabeth Marriage | John Keats | Ode on a Grecian Urn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Katherine Evans | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Mary Robson | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Charles Stansfield | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Charles Evans | John Keats | [1820 poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 26 January and 29 September 1881]
'When Parliament adjourned for a recess in April Cha... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |