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London (England) 3
Poets, English 3
Religious poetry 3
Scholars 3
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Art 2
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 2
Authors, English -- Correspondence 2
Autographs 2
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Diaries 2
Drama 2
Drama -- 20th century 2
English poetry -- 17th century 2
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French literature 2
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Indexed names
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 8
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 7
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
University of Oxford 5
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 4
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 4
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 3
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 3
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 3
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 3
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 2
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 2
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 2
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 2
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 2
Gibson | Wilfrid Wilson | 1878-1962 | Georgian poet 2
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 2
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Sassoon | Siegfried | 1886-1967 | poet 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 2
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 2
Treby | Ivor | 1933-2012 | poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher 2
University of Oxford | Students 2
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Winn | Kieron | Poet and Teacher 2
Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 2
"Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
Abbott | Claude Colleer |17 April 1889–17 Sept. 1971 | Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Durham, 1932–54, Emeritus Professor, 1954 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 1
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 1
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 1
Anderton | James | 1557-1613 | Religious controversialist also known as John Brereley 1
Armiger | Miles Christian | fl. 20th century 1
Ashbaugh | Dennis | 1946- | Artist 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Baker | Mary | fl. 1813-1841 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Banks | J. C. | fl. 1810-1822 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Begos | Kevin | Publisher 1
Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 1
Bennett | Arnold | 1867-1931 | Writer 1
Betham | William | 1749-1839 | Antiquary and clergyman 1
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | antiquary and editor 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bowra | Sir | Maurice | 1898-1971 | Knight | scholar 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Bridger | R. Lowther | fl. 1905-1918 1
Bridges | Edward Ettingdene | 1892-1969 | civil servant 1
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 1
Brooke | Rupert Chawner | 1887-1915 | Poet 1
Bruce | John | 1802-1869 | Antiquary 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Buxton | John | 1912-1989 | Scholar, university teacher, poet, and ornithologist 1
Byron | Anne Isabella | 1792-1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron | Social reformer and philanthropist 1
Byron | George Gordon | 1788-1824 | | 6th Baron Byron | poet 1
Byron | George Gordon | 6th Baron Byron | 1788-1824 | poet 1
Casey | George Edward Comerford | 1846-1912 | clergyman, teacher and writer 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Clayton | Roderick Edward | fl 1990 1
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 1
Cook | Mariana R. | b.1955 | Photographer 1
Cooper | J.G. | fl 1745-1762 1
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 1
Cozens | Emily | fl 1880 1
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 1
Crespigny | Caroline Champion de | née Bathurst | 1796-1861 | poet 1
Dale | Peter | b. 1938 | poet and translator 1
Daman | Charles | 1813-1895 | clergyman 1
Davids | Roy | 1942-2017 | book dealer, collector, writer 1
Davis | Sir | Rupert Charles | Hart- | 1907-1999 | knight | author, editor, and publisher 1
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 1
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 1
Desaguliers | John Theophilus | 1683-1744 | natural philosopher and engineer 1
Dixon | G. | fl. 1809 1
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Dodsley | Robert | 1703-1764 | Poet, dramatist and bookseller 1
Drinkwater | John | 1882-1937 | Poet and playwright 1

27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1819

The Abinger Papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937

Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.

Additional papers of Adam Fox

 Collection
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1912-1976

Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 6
Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot, 23 March 1714.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 23 March 1714-1720

Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. gen. d. 33
Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings, 19th century.
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates: 19th century

Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 181
Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches
Extents: 124 Leaves
Dates: 1827-1836

Album of manuscript verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1844-1848

Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.

Album of Mary Barker

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 36
Album of Mary Barker
Extents: 119 Leaves
Dates: Compiled c. 1813-1841

Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 1
Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 2022

Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2571/1-3
Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium', completed
Extents: 402 Leaves
Dates: 1991

'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 154
'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1608

Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the poet and writer Anne Ridler (1912-2001) and her husband Vivian Ridler (1913-2009), printer to the Oxford University Press and founder of Perpetua Press.
Extents: 5.596 Linear metres (81 boxes)
Dates: 1836-2011, n.d.; Majority of material found within 1927 - 2011

Archive of Audrey Beecham

 Collection
Papers of Audrey Beecham (1915-1989), poet and academic, with a small number of boxes concerning the wider Beecham family.
Extents: 6.70 Linear metres (100 boxes)
Dates: 1845-1988, n.d.

Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon

 Collection
The archive of the poet and novelist C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] (1904-1972) and his wife, the actress Jill Balcon (1925-2009).
Extents: 9.3 Linear metres (66 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1928-2009; 1778-2009

Archive of Enid Starkie

 Collection
Archive of Enid Starkie, literary critic, author and fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
Extents: 6.55 Linear metres (95 boxes)
Dates: 1879-1985, n.d.

Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice

 Collection
Papers of the poet and playwright Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), with papers of Hedli MacNeice, née Anderson (1907-1990)
Extents: 10.17 Linear metres (76 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1917-1989; n.d.

Archive of Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer
Extents: 8.22 Linear meters (117 containers)
Dates: 1799-2021

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

 Collection
Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: 1935-1964