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Literature 691

20th century 538

19th century 346

18th century 220

17th century 192

English literature 190

Poetry 136

English literature -- 20th century 125

Letters 110

Humanities 102

Religion 67

16th century 64

21st century 57

Poets 56

English literature -- 19th century 42

English Literature 39

History 39

Literature -- Translations 36

Poems 36

English poetry 35

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English poetry -- 20th century 35

Antiquarians 31

Authors 30

Literature -- 20th century 30

Children's literature 28

Authors -- 20th century 27

Church 26

Correspondence 26

Classical literature 22

Manuscripts 21

Novelists -- 19th century 21

Religious literature, English 21

x - 15th century 19

Books 18

Playwriting -- Drama 18

Theology 18

Sermons 17

Diaries 16

Letters -- 20th century 16

Novelists -- 20th century 16

Oxford (England) 16

Essays 15

Royal family 15

English literature -- 18th century 13

Ireland 13

Art 12

Authors, English -- 20th century 12

Biography 12

Commonplace books 12

Music 12

Authors, English 11

English language 11

English poetry -- 21st century 11

Latin literature 11

Law 11

Lectures and lecturing 11

London (England) 11

Politics and Government 10

University of Oxford 10

14th century 9

Authors, classical 9

Greek literature 9

Literary criticism 9

Northamptonshire (England) 9

Political satire 9

Antiquities 8

Drama 8

Journalism 8

Oxfordshire (England) 8

Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 8

Publishers and publishing 8

University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 8

Women authors, English -- 20th century 8

13th century 7

Academic writing 7

Accounts 7

Authors -- 19th century 7

English poetry -- 19th century 7

English poetry -- Women authors 7

Photographs 7

Poetry -- 20th century 7

War poetry 7

x - 12th century 7

Bible 6

Bodleian Library 6

Childrens literature -- 20th century 6

Church of England -- Clergy 6

England 6

English literature -- 17th century 6

French literature 6

Norfolk (England) 6

Poets -- 20th century 6

Prayers 6

World War, 1914-1918 6

Artists 5

Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 5

Basque literature 5

Bibliography 5

Catholic Church 5

Diaries -- 20th century 5

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Indexed names

Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 55

Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 13

Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Soldier, Author, and Archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12

Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11

Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11

University of Oxford 11

Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10

Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9

Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9

Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8

Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 8

Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7

Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7

Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 7

Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6

Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 6

Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6

Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 5

Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5

Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 5

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Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5

Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5

Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 4

Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4

Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4

Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 4

Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4

Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 4

Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4

Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 4

Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 4

Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4

Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4

Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4

Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 4

Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 4

Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4

Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4

MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4

Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4

Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4

Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 4

Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3

Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3

Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3

Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 3

Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 3

Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3

Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3

Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 3

Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 3

Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3

Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3

Lambert | Catherine | nee Read | b. 1918 | vocal coach 3

Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3

Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3

Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3

Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 3

Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 3

Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 3

Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 3

Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3

Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3

Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3

Raleigh | Sir | Walter | 1861-1922 | Knight | Literary scholar and historian 3

Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 3

Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3

Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 3

Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3

Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 3

Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 3

University of Oxford | Prizes 3

Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | writer and poet 3

Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 3

Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 3

Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 2

Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | Author 2

Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2

Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2

Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 2

Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2

Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 2

Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 2

Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2

Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 2

Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2

Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 2

Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2

Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 2

Burton | Edward | 1794-1836 | Professor of Divinity 2

Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 2

Codrington | Robert | 1601/2-1665 | Translator and writer 2

Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 2

Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 2

Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2

Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 2

Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2

Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author 2

Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2

Dodds | Annie Edwards | 1886/7–1973 | née Powell | lecturer in English at Reading University 2

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Language

Latin 91

French 44

German 30

Italian 27

Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 19

Spanish; Castilian 14

Dutch; Flemish 9

Irish 7

Greek, Modern (1453-) 7

Welsh 7

English, Old (ca.450-1100) 6

Chinese 5

Danish 5

Portuguese 5

Polish 4

Russian 4

Arabic 3

Cornish 3

Japanese 3

Norwegian 3

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Swedish 3

Basque 2

Catalan; Valencian 2

Czech 2

English, Middle (1100-1500) 2

Croatian 2

Multiple languages 2

Scots 2

Afrikaans 1

Basa 1

Celtic languages 1

Coptic 1

Estonian 1

Finnish 1

French, Old (842-ca.1400) 1

Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1

Hebrew 1

Hungarian 1

Icelandic 1

Persian 1

Provençal, Old (to 1500) 1

Romance languages 1

Slovak 1

Swahili 1

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