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Indexed names
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 7
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 5
University of Oxford 4
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 3
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 3
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 2
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 2
University of Oxford | Students 2
"Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Byron | George Gordon | 6th Baron Byron | 1788-1824 | poet 1
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 1
Casey | George Edward Comerford | 1846-1912 | clergyman, teacher and writer 1
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 1
Clayton | Roderick Edward | fl 1990 1
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 1
Crespigny | Caroline Champion de | née Bathurst | 1796-1861 | poet 1
Davis | Sir | Rupert Charles | Hart- | 1907-1999 | knight | author, editor, and publisher 1
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 1
Evans | Barbara Dorothy Fordyce | née Hay-Cooper | 1909-1995 | medical journalist and writer 1
Evans | Frank | 1926-2017 | marine biologist 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
Gardner | Dame | Helen Louise | 1908-1986 | literary scholar 1
Glass | Jesse | b. 1954 | poet, artist and folklorist 1
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 1
Griffiths | Jane Elizabeth | fl 1989 1
Grigson | Geoffrey Edward Harvey | 1905-1985 | poet and writer 1
Hill | Geoffrey William | 1932-2016 | poet 1
Holmes | Arthur | fl.1918 | poet 1
Howitt | Mary | 1799-1888 | poet 1
Imlah | Michael Ogilvie | 1956-2009 | poet and literary critic 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
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 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
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | 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 | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 1
Markham | Gervase | ? 1568-1637 | Author 1
Masefield | (Isabel) Judith | 1904-1988 | book illustrator 1
Maxwell | J G | poet 1
Maynard | Joseph | fl. c. 1623 1
McDougall | Phyllis (née Jones, afterwards Somervaille) | 1901-2001 1
Medwin | Thomas | 1788-1869 | biographer of P.B. Shelley 1
Milton | John | 1608-1674 | Poet 1
Montgomery | Barbara Ann | fl 1943-1980 | second wife of Robert Bruce Montgomery 1
Montgomery | Robert Bruce | 1921-1978 | Composer and writer as Edmund Crispin 1
Moore | Thomas Sturge | 1870-1944 | writer and wood engraver 1
Parish | Romola | fl 2017 | poet 1
Peplow | Alexander | fl 2022 | DPhil candidate, Merton College, University of Oxford 1
Piggot | Arthur Alfred | 1891-1915 | Poet 1
Polwhele | John | fl. c. 1623-1662 | of Lincoln's Inn 1
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 1
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 1
Ridler | Vivian Hughes | 1913-2009 | printer, typographer and scholar 1
Rohsler | Caron Amanda | fl 1993 1
Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 1
Southgate | Audrey | fl 2022 | of Merton College, University of Oxford 1
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 1
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 1
Thomas | Philip Edward | 1878-1917 | poet and writer 1
University of Nottingham 1
University of Oxford | Agricultural Economics Research Institute 1
University of Oxford | Institute of Agricultural Economics 1
Wang | Maggie | fl 2022 | undergraduate at University of Oxford 1
Whidborne | Thomas Vining | 1800-1871 | Surgeon 1
Winn | Kieron | Poet and Teacher 1
Wormald | Mark Roderick | fl 1988 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

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

Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.

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 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 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 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

'Catalogue of 106 Poetical Tracts from a MS. written in the reign of K. James I. and found in the cover of a volume...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 227
'Catalogue of 106 Poetical Tracts from a MS. written in the reign of K. James I. and found in the cover of a volume...'
Extents: 37 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1830 by P. Bliss

Collection, copied c.1735, of satires, occasional verse and prose

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. f. 12
Collection, copied c.1735, of satires, occasional verse and prose.
Extents: 168 pages
Dates: c.1735

Collection of hand-painted poetry booklets by Jesse Glass

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3900
Collection of hand-painted poetry booklets by Jesse Glass
Extents: 9 items
Dates: 1981-2009

Collection of prose and verse, copied in one hand

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 37
Collection of prose and verse, copied in one hand, first half of 17th century.
Extents: 158 pages
Dates: First half of the 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

A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 284
A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc., written about A.D. 1820-1830.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: written about A.D. 1820-1830