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Letters 13
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18th century 5
English poetry -- 21st century 5
16th century 4
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Historians 2
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Activism 1
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Artists' Book 1
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Authors, English -- 20th century 1
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English literature--20th century 1
English poetry -- 18th century 1
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Folklore and children 1
France 1
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German literature 1
Germany 1
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Indexed names
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 8
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 7
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 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
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 3
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 2
Gibson | Wilfrid Wilson | 1878-1962 | Georgian 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 | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 2
Treby | Ivor | 1933-2012 | poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher 2
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 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
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 1
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 1
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 1
Armiger | Miles Christian | fl. 20th century 1
Ashbaugh | Dennis | 1946- | Artist 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 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
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bowra | Sir | Maurice | 1898-1971 | Knight | scholar 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
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Buxton | John | 1912-1989 | Scholar, university teacher, poet, and ornithologist 1
Casey | George Edward Comerford | 1846-1912 | clergyman, teacher and writer 1
Clayton | Roderick Edward | fl 1990 1
Cook | Mariana R. | b.1955 | Photographer 1
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 1
Dale | Peter | b. 1938 | poet and translator 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
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 1
Drinkwater | John | 1882-1937 | Poet and playwright 1
Edgley | J. A. C | fl. 1889 1
Edwardes | Edward Joshua | fl 1900-1916 | translator 1
Eliot | Thomas Stearns | 1888-1965 | poet 1
Evans | Barbara Dorothy Fordyce | née Hay-Cooper | 1909-1995 | medical journalist and writer 1
Evans | Frank | 1926-2017 | marine biologist 1
Filler | Martin Myles | b.1948 | American architecture critic and writer 1
Forman | A. W. | fl. 1895-1925 1
Fox | Adam | 1883-1977 | Canon of Westminster 1
Franklyn | Edna | née Lomas | 1903-1999 | dressmaker and writer 1
Gibbon | William Monk | 1896-1987 |Irish poet and writer 1
Gibson | William | 1948- | Author 1
Glass | Jesse | b. 1954 | poet, artist and folklorist 1
Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 1
Godwin | family 1
Goethe | Johann Wolfgang Von | 1749-1832 | German poet 1
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 1
Graves | Robert Ranke | 1895-1985 | poet and author 1
Green | Candida Rose Lycett | 1942-2014 | née Betjeman | author and conservationist 1
Greene | Herbert Wilson | 1857-1933 | Classical Scholar 1
Griffiths | Jane Elizabeth | fl 1989 1
Grigson | Geoffrey Edward Harvey | 1905-1985 | poet and writer 1
Gunston | family 1
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 1
Heaney | Seamus | 1939-2013 | Poet and Lecturer 1
Hodgson | Ralph | 1871-1962 | Poet and cartoonist 1
Holland | Vyvyan Beresford | 1886-1967 | author and translator 1
Holmes | Arthur | fl.1918 | poet 1
Hopkins | Gerard Manley | 1844-1889 | poet 1
Hughes | Violet M. | fl. 1991 | Author 1
Hutchinson | J. M. | fl. 1961 | Author known as J. Phoenice 1
Imlah | Michael Ogilvie | 1956-2009 | poet and literary critic 1
Ingram | James | 1774-1850 | Anglo Saxon Scholar Antiquary Archaeologist 1
Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 1
Jones | Evan | 1927-2023 | poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter 1
Jones | Monica Margaret Beal | 1922-2001 | lecturer in English 1
Joyce | James Augustine Aloysius | 1882-1941 | writer 1
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 1
MacDonald | George | 1824–1905 | poet and novelist 1
MacNeice | Antoinette Millicent Hedley ('Hedli') | 1907-1990 | nee Anderson | singer and actress 1
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 1

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

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

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

Archive of Jenny Joseph

 Collection
Correspondence and literary papers of the poet and writer Jenny Joseph, author of the poem 'Warning', 1945-2017.
Extents: 20.0 Linear metres (133 physical shelfmarks, 84 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 1945-2017

Archive of John Everett Butt

 Collection
Correspondence and notes of John Everett Butt, 1932-64.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1932-64

Archive of John Masefield

 Collection
The archive of the poet, novelist and playwright John Masefield (1878-1967), Poet Laureate from 1930-1967.
Extents: 7.188 Linear metres (135 boxes)
Dates: 1901-1968

Archive of Michael Sayers

 Collection
Archive of Michael Sayers (1911-2010), writer
Extents: 12.45 Linear metres (88 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1878, c. 1922-2015

Archive of Mick Imlah

 Collection
Archive of the poet and literary critic Michael Ogilvie ('Mick') Imlah (1956-2009).
Extents: 4.5 Linear metres (28 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1944-2009

Archive of Robert Seymour Bridges

 Collection
Archive of Robert Seymour Bridges, Poet Laureate, 1865-1969, including poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889).
Extents: 13.2 Linear metres (137 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1865-1969

Archive of Robert Stephen Hawker

 Collection
Archive of Robert Stephen Hawker
Extents: 1.67 Linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates: 1807-1965

Archive of Wilfred Owen and family members

 Collection
Papers and autograph manuscripts of Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), poet, with papers of other family members.
Extents: 7.7 Linear metres (75 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c.1820-2003, n.d.

Articles, book reviews etc. by William Monk Gibbon

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 700
Articles, book reviews etc. by William Monk Gibbon
Extents: 118 Leaves
Dates: 1974-1977