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20th century 121
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Poetry 61
English literature 43
English poetry -- 20th century 37
Poets 37
Humanities 29
19th century 24
English poetry 20
English literature -- 20th century 19
Letters 13
21st century 12
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Poetry -- 20th century 8
English poetry -- Women authors 7
Poets -- 20th century 7
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
Letters -- 20th century 4
World War, 1914-1918 4
Authors -- 20th century 3
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Music 3
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Poets, English 3
Sermons 3
Art 2
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 2
Authors, English -- Correspondence 2
Diaries 2
Drama -- 20th century 2
English language 2
English literature -- 18th century 2
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
University of Oxford -- Students 2
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
Christianity 1
Christianity -- 20th century 1
Church of England -- Clergy 1
Classical literature 1
Classicists 1
Concerts -- England -- Oxford 1
Concordances 1
Contracts 1
Economics 1
England -- Nottingham 1
England -- Oxford 1
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 1
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

Seven poems written for John Wain on the occasion of his marriage

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fols. 51-57
Seven poems written for John Wain on the occasion of his marriage
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1947

Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions)

 Collection
Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
Extents: 82 shelfmarks and 37 objects
Dates: 1577-1992 (predominantly 18th-20th cent.)

Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 26
Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne.
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates: c. 1837-1909

Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 16
Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates: May 1881, 1916

Six letters from John Masefield to Barbara Evans née Hay-Cooper

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 6, fols. 17-27
Six letters from John Masefield to Barbara Evans née Hay-Cooper, c.1930-1958.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: c.1930-1958

Three Edmund Blunden documents from the printed books collection of Michael Turner

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fols. 35-39
Three Edmund Blunden documents from the printed books collection of Michael Turner.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates: Jan 1931-Jan 1936 and n.d.

Three letters from Stephen Spender to Martin Filler regarding his contributions to Design Quarterly

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 92-95
Three letters from Stephen Spender to Martin Filler regarding his contributions to Design Quarterly, 1992.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: 1992

Transcript made for the Clarendon Press of letters and poems by John Donne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 80
Transcript made for the Clarendon Press
Extents: 35 Leaves
Dates: Early 20th century

Transcript of BBC radio broadcast by Ruth Pitter, 'We Cannot Take Less', with autograph letter

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17234
Transcript of BBC radio broadcast by Ruth Pitter, 'We Cannot Take Less', with autograph letter, 1961-1977.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1961-1977

Translation into English rhymed verse by A. W. Forman of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 35
Translation into English rhymed verse by A. W. Forman of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus
Extents: 97 Leaves
Dates: 1895, 1925

Translation of Dante's The divine comedy by E.J. Edwardes

 Collection
Translation of Dante's The divine comedy by E.J. Edwardes.
Extents: 0.15 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: [c. 1900-16]

Twelve booklets containing copies of works by 20th-century poets, written, and decorated in colour, by Frederic Prokosch

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. f. 33/1-12
Twelve booklets containing copies of works by 20th-century poets, written, and decorated in colour, by Frederic Prokosch.
Extents: 12 items
Dates: 1968-1970

Two letters from Philip Larkin to C.K. Tirumalai

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fols. 23-24
Two letters from Philip Larkin to C.K. Tirumalai.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1975, 1979

Two undated poems by Cecil Day-Lewis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8238, fols. 51-3
Two undated poems by Cecil Day-Lewis.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: n.d.

Typescript copy of an article on John Masefield from the San Francisco Call

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 104-105
Typescript copy of an article on John Masefield from the San Francisco Call
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1913

Typescript of the Wiles lecture for 1965 by Sir Maurice Bowra, entitled 'Poetry and politics, 1900-60'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 685
Typescript of the Wiles lecture for 1965 by Sir Maurice Bowra, entitled 'Poetry and politics, 1900-60'
Extents: 228 Leaves
Dates: 1965-1966

Typescript poem ('the pubic hair collection') by Ivor Treby with related material including Dorian Opera programmes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 79-87
Catalogue of typescript poem ('the pubic hair collection') by Ivor Treby with related material including Dorian Opera programmes, 1982-1983.
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates: 1982-1983

Typescript translation of Goethe's Faust into English verse, by M. K. Piron

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 63
Typescript translation of Goethe's Faust into English verse, by M. K. Piron
Extents: 195 Leaves
Dates: 1965

Typescript variorum edition of Walter de la Mare's Songs of Childhood

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6057
Typescript variorum edition of Walter de la Mare's 'Songs of Childhood'.
Extents: 572 Leaves
Dates: 1972

Typescript verse by R. Lowther Bridger

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 23
Typescript verse by R. Lowther Bridger
Extents: 88 Leaves
Dates: 1905-1918