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English literature 78
20th century 55
Poetry 44
Humanities 39
English poetry 29
19th century 28
English poetry -- 20th century 24
English literature -- 20th century 19
Literature 19
Poets 19
21st century 15
English poetry -- 21st century 12
Correspondence 10
17th century 9
Literature -- 20th century 9
English poetry -- Women authors 8
18th century 7
English poetry -- 19th century 7
Letters 7
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
English literature -- 19th century 6
Poems 6
Poets -- 20th century 6
University of Oxford 6
Commonplace books 5
English language 5
Poets, English -- Correspondence 5
Authors 4
English literature -- 21st century 4
Literary criticism 4
Poetry -- 20th century 4
University of Oxford -- Students 4
Children's literature -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 18th century 3
Poets, English 3
Sermons 3
War poetry 3
16th century 2
Art 2
Authors -- 20th century 2
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 2
Authors, English -- Correspondence 2
English literature -- 17th century 2
English poetry -- 17th century 2
English poetry -- 18th century 2
Essays 2
Feminism 2
Historians 2
Inklings (Group of writers) 2
Latin literature 2
Lectures and lecturing 2
Novelists -- 19th century 2
Novelists -- 20th century 2
Playwriting -- Drama 2
Poetry -- 17th century 2
Poetry -- 19th century 2
Poetry, English 2
Poets laureate 2
Religious literature, English 2
Romanticism 2
Theater 2
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 2
Women scientists 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Academics 1
Activism 1
Agriculture 1
Antiquarians 1
Architecture 1
Authors -- 19th century 1
Authors, English 1
Authors, English -- 20th century 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 19th century 1
Christianity 1
Christianity -- 20th century 1
Classicists 1
Concerts -- England -- Oxford 1
Cricket 1
Devon (England) 1
Diaries 1
Drama -- 19th century 1
Drama -- 20th century 1
Economics 1
England -- Nottingham 1
England -- Oxford 1
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 1
English literature -- 16th century 1
English literature -- History and criticism 1
English literature--20th century 1
English poetry -- 16th century 1
Fiction 1
Folklore 1
Folklore and children 1
Germany 1
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 1
Great Britain -- Politics and Government -- 17th century 1
History 1
Industry 1
Interior design 1
Indexed names
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
University of Oxford 4
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 3
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 3
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 3
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 3
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 3
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 3
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 2
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 2
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 2
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
University of Oxford | Students 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
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 1
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | antiquary and editor 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Byron | Anne Isabella | 1792-1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron | Social reformer and philanthropist 1
Byron | George Gordon | 1788-1824 | | 6th Baron Byron | poet 1
Byron | George Gordon | 6th Baron Byron | 1788-1824 | poet 1
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 1
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 1
Cook | Mariana R. | b.1955 | Photographer 1
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 1
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 1
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 1
Desaguliers | John Theophilus | 1683-1744 | natural philosopher and engineer 1
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 1
Dryden | John | 1631-1700 | poet, playwright, and critic 1
Fanshawe | Sir | Richard | 1608-1666 | 1st Baronet | Diplomat and Author 1
Filler | Martin Myles | b.1948 | American architecture critic and writer 1
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 1
Fisher | John | c.1469-1535 | Saint | bishop of Rochester, cardinal, and martyr 1
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Foster | (Myles) Birket | 1825–1899 | painter and illustrator 1
Fox | Adam | 1883-1977 | Canon of Westminster 1
Franklyn | Edna | née Lomas | 1903-1999 | dressmaker and writer 1
Gardner | Dame | Helen Louise | 1908-1986 | literary scholar 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
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 1
Green | Candida Rose Lycett | 1942-2014 | née Betjeman | author and conservationist 1
Grigson | Geoffrey Edward Harvey | 1905-1985 | poet and writer 1
Hill | Geoffrey William | 1932-2016 | poet 1
Holland | Vyvyan Beresford | 1886-1967 | author and translator 1
Holmes | Arthur | fl.1918 | poet 1
Howitt | Mary | 1799-1888 | poet 1
Jenkins | Sir | Leoline | 1625-1685 | Academic and diplomat 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 | John Pike | 1790-1857 | Antiquary 1
Jones | Monica Margaret Beal | 1922-2001 | lecturer in English 1
King | Ada Augusta | 1815-1852 | mathematician | wife of 1st Earl Lovelace 1
King | William | 1805-1893 | 1st Earl of Lovelace 1
Krishnan | Maya | fl 2022 | DPhil student at the University of Oxford 1
Landon | Letitia Elizabeth | 1802-1838 | poet and writer | pseudonym "L.E.L." 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
Mare | Richard Herbert Ingpen de la | 1901-1986 | publisher 1
Marinoff | Fania | fl. 1948 1
Masefield | (Isabel) Judith | 1904-1988 | book illustrator 1
Masefield | Jack 1
Maxwell | J G | poet 1
McDougall | Phyllis (née Jones, afterwards Somervaille) | 1901-2001 1
Milbanke | Ralph Gordon Noel King | 2nd Earl of Lovelace | 1839-1906 1
Milbanke-Noel | Judith | 1751-1822 | nee Noel, afterwards Milbanke | wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke-Noel 1
Milbanke-Noel | Sir | Ralph | 1747-1825 | | 6th Baronet | MP for Durham 1
Milton | John | 1608-1674 | Poet 1
Moore | Thomas Sturge | 1870-1944 | writer and wood engraver 1
More | Sir | Thomas | 1478-1535 | Saint | lord chancellor, humanist, and martyr 1
Parkyn | Robert | d.1569 | Church of England clergyman and writer 1
Peplow | Alexander | fl 2022 | DPhil candidate, Merton College, University of Oxford 1
Plunkett | Edward John Moreton Drax | 1878-1957 | 18th Baron of Dunsany | writer 1
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 1
Prior | Matthew | 1664-1721 | poet and diplomat 1
Ridler | Vivian Hughes | 1913-2009 | printer, typographer and scholar 1

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

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

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

Album of manuscript verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1844-1848

Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 1
Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 2022

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 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 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 Robert Stephen Hawker

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

Archive of the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families

 Collection
Papers of Annabella, Lady Byron (1792-1860), including papers of her parents, Sir Ralph and Judith Milbanke (later Noel), papers of her daughter, Ada Byron (later Lady Lovelace), and her grand-children, Ralph King (2nd Earl of Lovelace) and Anne Blunt.
Extents: 50.6 Linear metres (460 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1669-1930

Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. th. d. 15
Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn, curate of Adwick-le-Street, near Doncaster, Yorks.
Extents: 159 Leaves
Dates: 1532-1565

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

Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 57
Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others.
Extents: 82 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23614
Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c. 1822-1852