| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finish... | William Soutar | Aldington | [brochure on Lawrence] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finish... | William Soutar | [unknown] | Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To bunk about 8.0. Reading.' | William Soutar | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through C... | William Soutar | [n/a] | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through C... | William Soutar | Chambers | Twentieth Century Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin". Very fresh mind - he at once joins the company of those who... | William Soutar | Paul Gauguin | The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.' | William Soutar | [unknown] | [ballads] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'An historical moment - completed my odyssey through Chambers's "Dictionary" - I began 8 years and 8 months ago. Have ... | William Soutar | Chambers | Twentieth Century Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "The Northern Muse", arranged by John Buchan. A fine anthology - yet one must admit that our greates... | William Soutar | John Buchan | The Northern Muse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share i... | William Soutar | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "Bengal Lancer" by F. Yeats-Brown. A pleasant book - by a likeable fellow. It's a pity he merely whe... | William Soutar | F Yeats-Brown | Bengal Lancer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.' | William Soutar | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: e... | William Soutar | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his ... | William Soutar | Edmund Blunden [ed] | An Anthology of War Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his ... | William Soutar | Wilfred Owen | Strange Meeting | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his ... | William Soutar | Siegfried Loraine Sassoon | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nietzsche is one of the very few philosophers who remain poets in the midst of their philosophising; perhaps he is th... | William Soutar | Friedrich Nietzsche | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When looking at Hacker's "Annunciation" I was especially attracted by the water-pot, and said as much in my letter to... | William Soutar | C.J. Jung | Psychology of the Unconscious | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The first review of "Seeds in the Wind" came along today - "The Glasgow Evening News" - Power may have done it. Overp... | William Soutar | [n/a] | Glasgow Evening News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Poems 1909-1925" by T.S. Eliot. I have never had any inclination to read Eliot's book but a whim prompted me to... | William Soutar | T.S. Eliot | Poems 1909-1925 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "Capital" - the cenotaph of its subject.' | William Soutar | Karl Marx | Capital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in "New Britain" on "Shakespeare and Socialism" -... | William Soutar | [n/a] | New Britain | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Has Eliot, for example, not returned from the "Waste Land" back to a more dogmatic climate - his latest book, "After ... | William Soutar | T.S. Eliot | After Strange Gods | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Copies of "The Solitary Way" came along: looks quite nice. Looking at this handful of lyrics of unequal quality, one ... | William Soutar | William Soutar | The Solitary Way | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading over the adjoining note, on Gibbon's death, today, leaves me with a sense of inhumanity.' | William Soutar | William Soutar | journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'Advance copy of "Brief Words" came along; looks very well - scarcely anything that could be improved upon - excepting... | William Soutar | William Soutar | Brief Words | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "Sunset Song". No doubt at all about the richness, the routhiness of this book. Careless, often unnecessaril... | William Soutar | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Sunset Song | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intell... | William Soutar | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had Aldous Huxley been as richly endowed with imagination as with intellectual penetration, his "Brave New World" mig... | William Soutar | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "Grey Granite" by Grassic Gibbon. Hasn't the richness of "Sunset Song" but has much of its verve. On... | William Soutar | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Grey Granite | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading Murray's "Keats and Shakespeare" again. This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I... | William Soutar | John Middleton Murray | Keats and Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Having read again Housman's "More Poems", one is forced to the conclusion that his philosophic attitude had been defi... | William Soutar | Alfred Edward Housman | More Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was an exhilarating coincidence that my re-reading of H.T.'s "As It Was" should follow just after I had made my di... | William Soutar | H. Thomas | As It Was | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature"... | William Soutar | T.F. Henderson | Scottish Vernacular Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature"... | William Soutar | Alexander Hume | The Day Estivall | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolph Roeber. This is my introduction to Anarchism, and I find that there... | William Soutar | Rudolph Roeber | Anarcho-Syndicalism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is uni... | William Soutar | Tom Scott | On my 21st Birthday | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is uni... | William Soutar | G.S. Fraser | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the S... | William Soutar | David Guest | Dialectical Materialism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the S... | William Soutar | T.S. Eliot | The Idea of Christian Society | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "The Scots Literary Tradition" by John Spiers - a capable little study within its limits, and comes ... | William Soutar | John Spiers | The Scots Literary Tradition | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading A.C. Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy", which has lain unread for 20 years: a work of profound penet... | William Soutar | A.C. Bradley | Shakespearean Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read a little book of verse entitled "Cage Without Grievance", by a "modern Scot", W.S. Graham. Montgomerie's gift; a... | William Soutar | W.S. Graham | Cage Without Grievance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading Amiel's "Journal Intime" today. How easy for a critic to lapse into a patronising attitude towards t... | William Soutar | Henri-Frédéric Amiel | The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Re-read MacDiarmid's "Scot's Unbound" - some fine lyrics; but the "thoct" in the lengthy poems confounds the poetry; ... | William Soutar | Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] | Scots Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there ... | William Soutar | [unknown] | Edward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished reading a "Book of Scottish Verse" yesterday - edited by George Burnett. What a number of minor Scottish p... | William Soutar | George Burnett [ed] | Book of Scottish Verse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two year... | William Soutar | Tom Scott | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is very difficult to assess the poetry of De la Mare. Compared with Davies and Housman (for example), he is the mo... | William Soutar | Walter De La Mare | [poems] | Print: Book |