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

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

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

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

Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1912-1976
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Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot

Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot, 23 March 1714.
Shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 6
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 23 March 1714-1720
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Album connected with the Byron family

Album connected with the Byron family, 19th century.
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Extents: 162 Leaves
Dates: 19th century
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An album containing poems written in a faux-Gothic calligraphic hand and illuminated in the style of a medieval manuscript

An album containing poems written in a faux-Gothic calligraphic hand and illuminated in the style of a medieval manuscript, by an unidentified author-artist
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4169
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates: n.d.
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Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings

Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings, 19th century.
Shelfmark: MS. Top. gen. d. 33
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates: 19th century
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Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches

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

Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1844-1848
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Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

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.
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.
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Album of Mary Barker

Album of Mary Barker
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 36
Extents: 119 Leaves
Dates: Compiled c. 1813-1841
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Album of verse and letters by Austin Dobson, 1885-1920, collected by and mainly addressed to J. W. Martyn

Album of verse and letters by Austin Dobson, 1885-1920, collected by and mainly addressed to J. W. Martyn.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 186
Extents: 144 Leaves
Dates: 1885-1920
Collection

Albums of the Edgeworth and Fox families

Three albums, consisting of a commonplace book of Frances Anne Edgeworth, an embroidery pattern book, and an album of sketches and watercolours, with drawings by Mary Anne Fox.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (4 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 19th century
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Alchemical treatises and poems, and Welsh pieces

Alchemical treatises and poems, and Welsh pieces
Shelfmark: MS. e Mus. 63
Extents: 175 Leaves
Dates: Made up of two MSS. written in the 16th century in England
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Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem

Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 1
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 2022
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Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium'

Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium', completed
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2571/1-3
Extents: 402 Leaves
Dates: 1991
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'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'

'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 154
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1608
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Anne Ridler, letter, 1976, and drafts of a poem, 'A Pirated Edition', published in Some Time After, and Other Poems (London, 1972)

Anne Ridler, letter, 1976, and drafts of a poem, 'A Pirated Edition', published in Some Time After, and Other Poems (London, 1972)
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 179, fols. 1-6
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates: 1976
Collection

An Annotated Copy of Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia poetica

An Annotated Copy of Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia poetica
Extents: 10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 19th century

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Indexed subjects
Poetry 302
20th century 274
19th century 192
Literature 138
Poets 107
18th century 99
17th century 94
English poetry 72
English poetry -- 20th century 62
Letters 51
English literature 49
Humanities 39
Poetry -- 20th century 31
Correspondence 30
21st century 29
16th century 24
Poems 24
English poetry -- 21st century 18
English literature -- 20th century 17
English poetry -- 19th century 16
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English poetry -- Women authors 15
Manuscripts 15
Religion 14
Poets -- 20th century 13
English Literature 12
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 11
Literature -- 20th century 10
Poetry, English 10
Political satire 10
Authors 9
English poetry -- 17th century 9
Essays 9
Latin poetry 9
Oxford (England) 8
Poetry -- 19th century 8
Sermons 8
University of Oxford 8
War poetry 8
English poetry -- 18th century 7
Letters -- 20th century 7
Literary criticism 7
Poetry -- 18th century 7
World War, 1914-1918 7
Authors -- 20th century 6
English literature -- 19th century 6
Epic poetry 6
Literature -- Translations 6
Poetry -- 17th century 6
Poetry, English -- 19th century 6
Religious poetry 6
Theology 6
Antiquarians 5
Commonplace books 5
Diaries 5
English language 5
Music 5
Novelists 5
Poetry, English -- 18th century 5
Poets -- 19th century 5
Poets, English -- 19th century 5
Politics and Government 5
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 5
University of Oxford -- Students 5
x - 15th century 5
Bible 4
Diaries -- 18th century 4
Drama 4
Drama -- 20th century 4
Historians 4
Illumination of books and manuscripts 4
Latin literature 4
Lectures and lecturing 4
Medicine 4
Playwriting -- Drama 4
Poetry, English -- 17th century 4
Poets laureate 4
Poets, English 4
Scholars 4
Songs 4
Welsh poetry 4
14th century 3
Ballads 3
Biography 3
Children's literature 3
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Diaries -- 20th century 3
Drama -- 19th century 3
English literature -- 18th century 3
France 3
Law 3
London (England) 3
Novelists -- 20th century 3
Oxfordshire (England) 3
Philosophy 3
Poets -- 18th century 3
Religious literature, English 3
Women 3
13th century 2
Authors -- 19th century 2
Authors, Classical 2
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Indexed names
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 17
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 13
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 11
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 8
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 7
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 6
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 5
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 4
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 4
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 4
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 4
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St. Paul's and poet 4
Eliot | Thomas Stearns | 1888-1965 | poet 4
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 4
Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 4
Jones | Monica Margaret Beal | 1922-2001 | lecturer in English 4
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4
Sassoon | Siegfried | 1886-1967 | poet 4
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Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 4
University of Oxford 4
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | writer and poet 4
Welcker | Adair | fl. 1886-1904 | Author 4
Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 4
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 3
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 3
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 3
Causley | Charles Stanley | 1917-2003 | poet 3
Cowper | William | 1731-1800 | poet 3
Dobell | Bertram | 1842-1914 | Bookseller and Man of Letters 3
Hayley | William | 1745-1820 | Poet 3
Hopkins | Gerard Manley | 1844-1889 | poet 3
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 3
Skinner | Martyn | 1906-1993 | Poet 3
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 2
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 2
Albert | 1819-1861 | Prince Consort of Queen Victoria 2
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 2
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 2
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
Bridges | Edward Ettingdene | 1892-1969 | civil servant 2
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet 2
Burns | Robert | 1759-1796 | poet 2
Butler | William Huxford | 1934-1977 | poet 2
Campbell | Thomas | 1777-1844 | Poet 2
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 2
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 2
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2
Colvil | Samuel | fl. 1640-1681 2
Daryush | Elizabeth | 1887-1977 | née Bridges | poet 2
Davis | Sir | Rupert Charles | Hart- | 1907-1999 | knight | author, editor, and publisher 2
Dee | John | 1527-1608 | Mathematician and Astrologer 2
Fox | Adam | 1883-1977 | Canon of Westminster 2
Gardner | Dame | Helen Louise | 1908-1986 | literary scholar 2
Gibson | Wilfrid Wilson | 1878-1962 | Georgian poet 2
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 2
Guiney | Louise Imogen | 1861-1920 | American Poet and Essayist 2
Hardy | Thomas | 1840–1928 | novelist and poet 2
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 2
Heaney | Seamus | 1939-2013 | Poet and Lecturer 2
Heber | Reginald | 1783-1826 | Bishop of Calcutta 2
Herrick | Robert | 1591-1674 | poet 2
Jenkins | Margaret Elizabeth Heald | 1905-2010 | novelist and biographer 2
Jonson | Benjamin | c. 1573-1637 | poet 2
King | Henry | 1592-1669 | poet and bishop of Chichester 2
Lane | John | 1854-1925 | Publisher 2
Lewis | Alun | 1915-1944 | poet 2
Lewis | Cecil Day | 1904-1972 | poet 2
Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher 2
Madan | Judith | 1702-1781 | Poet 2
Maro | Publius Vergilius | c 70-19 BC | Roman poet known as Virgil 2
Marvell Press | publisher 2
Masefield | (Isabel) Judith | 1904-1988 | book illustrator 2
Mason | William | 1724-1797 | poet 2
Nichols | John Bowyer | 1779-1863 | printer and antiquary 2
Parkyn | Robert | d.1569 | Church of England clergyman and writer 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 2
Prokosch | Frederic | 1908-1989 | calligrapher and poet 2
Queen's University Belfast 2
Randolph | Thomas | 1605-1635 | poet 2
Rathbone | Gillian | fl 2010 | poet 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | Writer and poet 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Rossetti | Christina Georgina | 1830-1894 | Poet 2
Rossetti | Dante Gabriel | 1828-1882 | Painter and Poet 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Skinner | Martyn | 1906-1993 | writer 2
Southwell | Robert | c 1561-1595 | Jesuit and poet 2
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 2
Symonds | John Addington | 1840-1893 | Poet and literary critic 2
Taylor | John | 1578-1653 | called the Water Poet | poet 2
Taylor | Sir | Henry | 1800-1886 | Knight Author 2
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 2
Thomas | Philip Edward | 1878-1917 | poet and writer 2
Thomson | James | 1834-1882 | Poet and Pessimist 2
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Language
Latin 39
French 20
German 11
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 9
Welsh 9
Italian 8
Spanish; Castilian 5
Greek, Modern (1453-) 4
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 3
Cornish 2
Dutch; Flemish 2
English, Middle (1100-1500) 2
Portuguese 2
Arabic 1
Basque 1
Catalan; Valencian 1
Chinese 1
Czech 1
Danish 1
Dutch, Middle (ca.1050-1350) 1