√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'P... | John Clare | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sne... | J.R. Clynes | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness / 'When I consider how my light is spent...'[transcript of text] | Emma Bowly | John Milton | Sonnet XIX When I consider how my light is spent | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Milton | Paradise Lost: a poem in twelve books | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during Octob... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Siste... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | [sonnets] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Para... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with... | Joseph Barker | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Milton | Sabrina Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | John Milton | Lycidas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 February, 1802: 'After tea I read aloud the eleventh book of Paradise... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book XI) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802, 'Wm. wrote two sonnets on Buonaparte, after I had read Milt... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, in entry for Thursday 3 June 1802, 'A very affecting letter came from M[ary]. H... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | John Milton | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go... | Leslie Stephen | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | John Milton | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | John Milton | Complete poetry | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poe... | Henry Wotton | John Milton | A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C1... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Regain'd/Samson Agonistes | 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 Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'. | Edward Davy Harrop | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | John Milton | [unknown] | 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 Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her s... | [unknown] Jebb | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. In the even read the 9th book of "Paradise Lost".' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 10th book of "Paradise Lost" in the even.' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. In the even read the 11th and 12th books of "Paradise Regained", which I think is much inferior for ... | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the Even Tho. Davy at our House to whom I read the 4th Book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read the 6th book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read the 12th and last book of Milton's "Paradise Lost", which I have now read twice through and in my op... | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wish you would cannonade this N[ewto]n. I cannot bear, that another of Apollo's genuine Offspring should pass down ... | Samuel Richardson | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the doo... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | Aeropagitica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with bene... | Mary Wollstonecraft | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We read "Paradise Lost" in Gen. English & I tried to look enthusiastic, but I really can't appreciate Milton. He's s... | Hilary Spalding | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to ... | Hilary Spalding | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | [miscellaneous poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | [miscellaneous works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious ... | Thomas Carter | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first scene is the Lamentation of Sampson [sic] which possesses much pathos of sublimity ... I think this is beau... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 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 Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, in reflections on reading (1798): 'When I read "Paradise Lost," I am no more able to conceive the powers o... | Mary Berry | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads a part of Comus aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Comus (A mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 8 June 1811: 'Went to Lady Cork's. A curious party, where, by way of something to do, she had [J... | John Thelwall | John Milton | 'Invocation to Light' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day;... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke and Captain Boothby | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole p... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guests | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and comment... | Sir James Mackintosh | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Mr Perry | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Mr Perry | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Miltons letter to Mr Hartlib on educations'. | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Twould make a Paradise of Hell--
& fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]' | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Milton | Poems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Milton | A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. a little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides' | William Windham | John Milton | [poetry] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Love thou blam'st me not; for love thou say'st/Leads up to Heaven/ is both the way and guide/...' 'Milton' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | John Milton | Paradise Lost, Book VIII | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Milton's sonnet on his Blindness "When I consider howmy light is spent"' | Bowly group | John Milton | Sonnet OR When I consider how my light is spent | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite re... | Charles Lamb | John Milton | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a mis... | Benjamin Shaw | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" bette... | John Clare | John Milton | Paradise Lost | 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 Milton | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | John Milton | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little of "Paradise lost"' | Albert Battiscombe | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'. | Alexander (Rex) Ewing | John Milton | Paradise Lost [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Spent most of the day reading the "Paradise Lost"; I was quite delighted with it'. | Harriet Wynne | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and su... | Thomas Green | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...' | Thomas Green | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in... | Thomas Green | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That th... | William Blake | John Milton | Paradise Lost, vii, 29-30 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasg... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in/childhood & shew'd me his face./Ezra came with Isaiah the Proph... | William Blake | John Milton | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Paradise Lost | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Lycidas | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Areopagitica: a Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Lycidas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [John] Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [John] Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gr... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | Paradise lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | [Latin poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'. | Thomas Carlyle | John Milton | Prose works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S walks - & reads I book of Paradise Lost in the evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Gibbon a[nd] 2 book of Paradise Lost.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Oct. 28th. [...] I walk out by myself about Kentish Town -- Read Comus.' | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'. | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go
away in a coach at 1... | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | 'L'Allegro' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | 'Il Penseroso' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann
Gambs] a little of 1st C... | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.' | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Milton | Paradise Lost (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of texts read by both herself and Shelley in 1819. All texts are mentioned in journal ent... | Mary and Percy Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Paradise Regain[e]d aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Paradise regained aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Milton on divorce' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats' annotated copy of "Paradise Lost"]: 'The Genius of Milton, more particularly in respect to its s... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on "The Argument"]: There is a greatness which the "Paradise ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openin... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phras... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 318-21]: Keats underlines the line 'To slumb... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'th... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'An... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 2, lines 546-61]: Keats underlines the following: the... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | [Miss] Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | [Miss] Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Elizabeth Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Elizabeth Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | complete works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,... | Miss V[-] | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Janet Case | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impres... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how ... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Milton | Comus: A Masque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Milton | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Alfred Tennyson, aged twelve, to his aunt Marianne Fytche:
'You used to tell me that you should be obliged to me if... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Following Hallam Tennyson's description of his mother's attendance of her younger sister as bridesmaid in May 1836]
... | Emily Sellwood | John Milton | Comus | 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 Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | 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 | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| | 'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi... | Samuel Johnson | John Milton | Tractate: Of Education | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Samuel Johnson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Hannah More | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Hannah More | John Milton | [Sonnets] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ... | Dr Collier | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apolloni... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'. | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountab... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and line... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 1-5] Keats underlines the lines: "O for that w... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 6, lines 58-9] Keats underlines "reluctant flames, the ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 7, lines 420-34] Keats underlines the phrase "With clan... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 41-7]: 'Had not Shakespeare liv'd?' | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excludi... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send... | Hester Lynch Salusbury | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Comus: A Masque | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Shakespeare and Milton [...] he read aloud by preferen... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Paradise Lost (book IV) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'L'Allegro' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'Il Penseroso' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793: 'On Wednesday morning about eight o clock we sallied forth. my trave... | Robert Southey | John Milton | Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | John Milton | ‘The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I’ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807:
'This morning I got up betwe... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbour... | Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M... | Anne Isabella Milbanke and Captain Boothby | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Charles Stansfield | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730:
'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments... | Aaron Hill | John Milton | Prose writings | Print: Unknown |