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20th century 121
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English literature 43
English poetry -- 20th century 37
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Humanities 29
19th century 24
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Letters 13
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English poetry -- Women authors 7
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War poetry 7
Literary criticism 6
Poets, English -- Correspondence 6
18th century 5
English poetry -- 21st century 5
16th century 4
17th century 4
Authors 4
Children's literature -- 20th century 4
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World War, 1914-1918 4
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Authors, English -- Correspondence 2
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Drama -- 20th century 2
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English literature -- 19th century 2
Essays 2
Feminism 2
Historians 2
Inklings (Group of writers) 2
Journalism 2
Law 2
Novelists -- 19th century 2
Novelists -- 20th century 2
Poems 2
Poetry, Greek 2
Poets laureate 2
Publishing 2
Radio broadcasting -- Great Britain 2
Scholars 2
Theater 2
University of Oxford 2
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Academics 1
Activism 1
Agriculture 1
Architecture 1
Artists' Book 1
Authors -- 19th century 1
Authors, English 1
Authors, English -- 20th century 1
Authors, Irish -- 20th century 1
Autographs 1
Bible 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 19th century 1
Bodleian Library 1
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Christianity -- 20th century 1
Church of England -- Clergy 1
Classical literature 1
Classicists 1
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England -- Oxford 1
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English literature -- History and criticism 1
English literature--20th century 1
English poetry -- 18th century 1
Fiction 1
Folklore 1
Folklore and children 1
France 1
French literature 1
German literature 1
Germany 1
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 1
Great Britain -- Topography 1
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

Guard-book of miscellaneous papers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 247
Guard-book of miscellaneous papers
Extents: 179 Leaves
Dates: 16th-20th century

Holograph draft of 'The atom of God' by John Drinkwater

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 11
Holograph draft of 'The atom of God' by John Drinkwater
Extents: 13 Leaves
Dates: 18 Sept. 1923

Holograph fair copy of 'Youth's funeral' by Rupert Brooke

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 1
Holograph fair copy of 'Youth's funeral' by Rupert Brooke
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: c. 1918

Interview of Philip Larkin with Miriam Gross, with correspondence

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 16084
Typescript interview of Philip Larkin with Miriam Gross for The Observer, with manuscript corrections by Larkin, and associated correspondence.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1979

Ivor Treby archive

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Ivor Treby, poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher.
Extents: 4.5 Linear metres (30 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1884-2012

'The Lambton Worm', libretto by Anne Ridler for opera by Robert Sherlaw Johnson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 210
'The Lambton Worm', libretto by Anne Ridler for opera by Robert Sherlaw Johnson.
Extents: 34 Leaves
Dates: 1976-1978

Letter from Edmund Blunden to Jack Isaacs

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fol. 86
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Jack Issacs, c.1920s.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: c.1920s

Letter from John Wain to the owner of the house in which he was born

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6043, fols. 31-32
Letter from John Wain to the owner of the house in which he was born.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1990

Letter from Philip Larkin to Frank Evans

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fol. 53
Letter from Philip Larkin to Frank Evans.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: Aug 1961

Letter from W.H. Auden to C. Day-Lewis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8410, fol. 56
Letter from W.H. Auden to C. Day-Lewis, 1930.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 6 Oct 1930

Letter of Philip Arthur Larkin to Peter Snow

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 493, fol. 112
Letter of Philip Arthur Larkin to Peter Snow
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1978

Letter of Thomas Lovell Beddoes to his mother, Anna

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 469, fols. 295-296
Letter of Thomas Lovell Beddoes to his mother, Anna.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1821

Letters and notes of C.C. Abbott

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. b. 27, fols. 27-32.
Letters and notes of C.C. Abbott, removed from a proof copy of The Sand Castles and other poems.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates: 1945-1946

Letters and papers of Charles Williams

 Collection
Correspondence of Charles Williams, author (1886-1945), with Phyllis M. Potter, and other literary papers.
Extents: 0.3 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1936-1951

Letters and papers of Edmund Blunden and family

 Collection
Letters and papers relating to the poet and university teacher Edmund Blunden and his first wife, Mary Blunden (née Daines, later Cooper Keeble).
Extents: 2.85 Linear metres (23 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1908-2004

Letters and papers of Jack Reading, 1937, relating to Samuel Johnson's disputed authorship of six poems published in the Gentleman's Magazine

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6822
Letters and papers of Jack Reading, 1937, relating to Samuel Johnson's disputed authorship of six poems published in the Gentleman's Magazine.
Extents: 28 Leaves
Dates: 1937

Letters and postcards from John Betjeman to Paul and Verily Paget and one postcard from Candida Lycett Green

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 5, fols. 21-27
Letters and postcards from John Betjeman to Paul and Verily Paget and one postcard from Candida Lycett Green.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: 1971-1992

Letters from A.E. Coppard to Edna Franklyn

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6735 (former reference: Dep. c. 854)
Letters from A.E. Coppard to Edna Franklyn, 1954-1956.
Extents: 32 Leaves
Dates: 1954-1956

Letters from Charles Williams to Dorothy Rance, with enclosed poems

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8379
Letters from author Charles Williams to Dorothy Rance, with poems by Charles Williams.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1939-1948

Letters from Count Potocki to John Symonds

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fols. 70-79
Letters from Count Potocki to John Symonds
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates: 1956-1984