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20th century 571
Literature 277
English literature 153
English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 94
19th century 80
Letters 61
Poetry 61
21st century 49
English poetry -- 20th century 37
Poets 37
Children's literature -- 20th century 33
Literature -- 20th century 31
Authors -- 20th century 28
Authors 22
English poetry 20
Novelists -- 20th century 18
Correspondence 17
Poems 17
Letters -- 20th century 16
18th century 15
Playwriting -- Drama 15
English literature -- 19th century 14
Authors, English -- 20th century 13
Novelists -- 19th century 13
Manuscripts 12
Religion 12
Authors, English 11
Art 9
Classical literature 9
Lectures and lecturing 9
Literature -- Translations 9
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9
17th century 8
Essays 8
History 8
Literary criticism 8
Poetry -- 20th century 8
Women authors, English -- 20th century 8
Biography 7
English language 7
English poetry -- Women authors 7
German literature 7
Music 7
Photographs 7
Poets -- 20th century 7
University of Oxford 7
War poetry 7
16th century 6
Authors -- 19th century 6
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 6
English literature -- 18th century 6
Journalism 6
Oxford (England) 6
Poets, English -- Correspondence 6
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 6
World War, 1914-1918 6
Diaries 5
Diaries -- 20th century 5
English poetry -- 21st century 5
Fantasy fiction 5
Publishers and publishing 5
Academic writing 4
Art, British -- 20th century 4
Artists 4
French literature 4
Germany 4
Greek literature 4
Illustration of books 4
Photography 4
Publishing 4
Radio broadcasting -- Great Britain 4
Science fiction 4
Sermons 4
Spanish literature 4
Theater -- England 4
Africa 3
Africa -- Description and travel 3
Africa -- History -- 20th century 3
Agriculture -- Kenya 3
Anthropology 3
Autobiography 3
Basque literature 3
Bodleian Library 3
Calligraphy 3
Children's stories, English 3
Christianity -- 20th century 3
Cricket 3
Dissertations, Academic 3
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 3
English Fiction -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 21st century 3
Folklore and children 3
Illustrations 3
Inklings (Group of writers) 3
Ireland 3
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Exhibitions 3
Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 3
Land settlement -- Kenya 3
Philosophy 3
Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 57
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 14
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
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
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
University of Oxford 7
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 5
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 5
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 5
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 5
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 4
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 3
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 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
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 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
Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Poynton | Arthur Blackburne | 1867-1944 | Greek scholar 3
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 3
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 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
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 2
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 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
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 2
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 2
Fraenkel | Eduard David Mortier | 1888-1970 | classical scholar 2
Gibson | Wilfrid Wilson | 1878-1962 | Georgian poet 2
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 2
Grahame | Elspeth | 1862-1946 | née Thomson | wife of Kenneth Grahame 2
Grahame | Elspeth S | 1862-1946 2
Greene | Vivien | 1904-2003 | collector 2
Hardie | Frank Martin | fl. 1926-1977 | author 2
Heaney | Seamus | 1939-2013 | Poet and Lecturer 2
Henrey | Madeleine (Mrs Robert Henrey) | 13 Aug. 1906–25 April 2004 | authoress 2
Hermogenes | 161-180 | of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician 2
Hewitt | William Graily | 1864-1952 | Novelist and calligrapher 2
Hughes | Shirley | 1927-2022 | freelance author and illustrator 2
Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 2
Kennedy | Ludovic Henry Coverley | b 1919 | Writer and Broadcaster 2
Montgomery | Robert Bruce | 1921-1978 | Composer and writer as Edmund Crispin 2
Moore | Edward | 1835-1916 | Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 2
Mynors | Sir | Roger Aubrey Baskerville | 1903-1989 | Knight | classical scholar 2
Needham | Rodney | 1923-2006 | Anthropologist 2
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 2
Oxford University Writers' Club. 2
Pullman | Philip | b 1946 | writer 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Sassoon | Siegfried | 1886-1967 | poet 2
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Spender | Natasha | 1919-2010 | née Litvin | concert pianist 2
Stallworthy | Jon (Howie) | 1935-2014 | poet and literary critic 2
Streatfeild | Mary Noel | 1895-1986 | author 2
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 2
Thwaite | Ann Barbara | 1932 | née Harrop | biographer 2
Thwaite | Anthony | b. 1930 | poet and writer 2
Treby | Ivor | 1933-2012 | poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher 2
Trollope | Anthony | 1815-1882 | novelist 2
University of Oxford | Students 2
Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 2
Wordsworth | Christopher | fl. 1910 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

Collection of photographic portraits by Mariana Cook

 Collection
15 silver gelatin photographic prints by Mariana R. Cook. 6 works depicting tools, and 9 portraits of notable figures.
Extents: 0.7 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1987-2021

Colour photocopies of a selection of manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien from the collection at Marquette University, Milwaukee

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 135
Colour photocopies of a selection of manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien from the collection at Marquette University, Milwaukee.
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates: 17-23 Aug 1992

Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind')

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 158
Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind').
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Concordances Compiled by H.W. Greene

 Collection
Concordances Compiled by H.W. Greene, 1902-1921.
Extents: 3.95 Linear metres (42 boxes)
Dates: 1902-21

Copies of John Synge diary entries, relating to Oxford University Writers Club and Ludovic Kennedy

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2694
Copies of John Synge diary entries, relating to Oxford University Writers Club and Ludovic Kennedy.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 1947-8

Copy of a report prepared by a document examiner, Nancy Cole, An Investigation into the Authorship of The Dark Tower: a Work Published Posthumously and Attributed to C.S. Lewis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5782
Copy of a report prepared by a document examiner, Nancy Cole, An Investigation into the Authorship of The Dark Tower: a Work Published Posthumously and Attributed to C.S. Lewis.
Extents: 19 Leaves
Dates: 1995

Copy of revised version of Edward Upward, 'Journey to the Border'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 128
Copy of revised version of Edward Upward, 'Journey to the Border'.
Extents: 149 Leaves
Dates: 1969-1990

Corrections made by Harriet Shaw Weaver to a copy of James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1917)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Arch. AA e. 97
Corrections made by Harriet Shaw Weaver to a copy of James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1917)
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1952

Correspondence and literary papers of Frederick Louis MacNeice, collected by John R. Hilton

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don c. 153/1-3
Correspondence and literary papers of Frederick Louis MacNeice, collected by John R. Hilton
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1924-1963

Correspondence and other materials of George Hilton relating to T.E. Lawrence

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 8032
Correspondence and other materials of George Hilton relating to T.E. Lawrence, c.1936-1994.
Extents: 1 box (5 folders)
Dates: c.1936-1994

Correspondence and papers relating to Thomas Love Peacock

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 582
Correspondence and papers relating to Thomas Love Peacock
Extents: 136 Leaves
Dates: c. 1861-1936

Correspondence between Charles Williams and Phyllis Jones

 Collection
Correspondence between Charles Williams and Phyllis Jones, with poems and lecture notes by Charles Williams.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1926-1936 and 1983

Correspondence between C.S. Lewis, Joy Davidman, Douglas Gresham, and David Gresham

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fols. 41-50
Correspondence between C.S. Lewis, Joy Davidman, Douglas Gresham, and David Gresham.
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates: [1959]-1963, n.d.

Correspondence between Joseph Conrad’s executors, Jessie Conrad and Hodgson and Co., concerning the sale of Conrad’s manuscripts and library by Hodgson’s, 13 Mar 1925

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don c. 167
Correspondence between Joseph Conrad’s executors, Jessie Conrad and Hodgson and Co., concerning the sale of Conrad’s manuscripts and library by Hodgson’s
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1924-1925

Correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien and R.W. Burchfield

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7284, fols. 1-16
Correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien and R.W. Burchfield, 1953-1972.
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: 1953-1972

Correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien, the Registry University of Oxford and King Edward VI School, Birmingham, relating to Tolkien’s tenure as school governor

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 104-109
Correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien, the Registry University of Oxford and King Edward VI School, Birmingham, relating to Tolkien’s tenure as school governor
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates: 1937-1940

Correspondence between Nadine Gordimer and Anthony Sampson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Sampson dep. 265
Correspondence between Nadine Gordimer and Anthony Sampson, 1955-2003.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1955-2003

Correspondence of Frank Hardie

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6579, fols. 57-74
Correspondence of Frank Hardie, 1933.
Extents: 18 Leaves
Dates: 1933

Correspondence of Nevill Coghill and David Luke, c.1959-1974, and additional papers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 15021
Correspondence of Nevill Coghill and David Luke, c.1959-1974, and additional papers
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1959-2005

Correspondence of Sarah Cawkwell and Jenny Joseph

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17253
Correspondence of the artist Sarah Cawkwell and the poet Jenny Joseph, 1994-2017.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1994-2017