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20th century 519

Literature 256

English literature -- 20th century 121

English literature 82

19th century 69

Letters 59

Poetry 57

Humanities 41

Poets 31

21st century 30

Literature -- 20th century 27

English Literature 26

English poetry -- 20th century 25

Authors -- 20th century 21

Poems 17

Authors 16

Children's literature 16

Correspondence 15

English poetry 15

Letters -- 20th century 14

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Playwriting -- Drama 14

Novelists -- 20th century 13

Manuscripts 12

Religion 12

18th century 10

English literature -- 19th century 10

Classical literature 9

Literature -- Translations 9

Essays 8

Lectures and lecturing 8

Literary criticism 8

Novelists 8

17th century 7

Biography 7

Poetry -- 20th century 7

War poetry 7

Women authors, English -- 20th century 7

16th century 6

Authors -- 19th century 6

Authors, English -- 20th century 6

Journalism 6

Art 5

Childrens literature -- 20th century 5

Diaries 5

Diaries -- 20th century 5

English language 5

German literature 5

History 5

Music 5

Poets -- 20th century 5

Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 5

University of Oxford 5

University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 5

World War, 1914-1918 5

Academic writing 4

Germany 4

Greek literature 4

Publishers and publishing 4

Publishing 4

Sermons 4

Spanish literature 4

Theater -- England 4

Anthropology 3

Art, British -- 20th century 3

Artists 3

Authors, English 3

Autobiography 3

Basque literature 3

Bodleian Library 3

Cricket 3

Dissertations, Academic 3

England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 3

English poetry -- 21st century 3

English poetry -- Women authors 3

French literature 3

Illustrations 3

Ireland 3

Oxford (England) 3

Philosophy 3

Photographs 3

Photography 3

Politics and Government 3

Radio broadcasting -- Great Britain 3

Scholars 3

Theater 3

Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 2

Authors, English -- 19th century 2

Autographs 2

Catholic Church 2

Children's stories, English 2

Church Architecture | England 2

Classical literature -- Study and teaching 2

Classicists 2

Concordances 2

Drama -- 20th century 2

English literature -- 18th century 2

English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 2

English literature -- Old English, c.450-1100 2

Fantasy fiction 2

Folklore and children 2

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Indexed names

Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 53

Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 13

Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 10

Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 10

Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 8

Williams | Charles | 1886-1945 | author 7

Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6

Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | known as Lawrence of Arabia | soldier, author 6

Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 5

Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | intelligence officer and author 5

Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 5

Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5

University of Oxford 5

Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | Author 4

Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4

Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4

Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 4

Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4

Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4

Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4

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MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4

Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 4

Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4

Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 4

Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3

Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3

Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3

Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 3

Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 3

Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 3

Lambert | Catherine | nee Read | b. 1918 | vocal coach 3

Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3

Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3

Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3

Poynton | Arthur Blackburne | 1867-1944 | Greek scholar 3

Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3

Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | writer and poet 3

Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 2

Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2

Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2

Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2

Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2

Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 2

Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 2

Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 2

Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2

Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 2

Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2

Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 2

Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 2

Dodds | Annie Edwards | 1886/7–1973 | née Powell | lecturer in English at Reading University 2

Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 2

Gibson | Wilfrid Wilson | 1878-1962 | Georgian poet 2

Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 2

Grahame (née Thomson) | Elspeth | 1862–1946 2

Grahame | Elspeth S | 1862-1946 2

Greene | Vivien | 1904-2003 | collector 2

Hardie | Frank Martin | fl. 1926-1977 | author 2

Heaney | Seamus | 1939-2013 | Poet and Lecturer 2

Henrey | Madeleine (Mrs Robert Henrey) | 13 Aug. 1906–25 April 2004 | authoress 2

Hermogenes | 161-180 | of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician 2

Hewitt | William Graily | 1864-1952 | Novelist and calligrapher 2

Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 2

Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 2

Kennedy | Ludovic Henry Coverley | b 1919 | Writer and Broadcaster 2

Montgomery | Robert Bruce | 1921-1978 | Composer and writer as Edmund Crispin 2

Moore | Edward | 1835-1916 | Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 2

Needham | Rodney | 1923-2006 | Anthropologist 2

Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 2

Oxford University Writers' Club. 2

Sassoon | Siegfried | 1886-1967 | poet 2

Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 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

Spender | Natasha | 1919-2010 | née Litvin | concert pianist 2

Stallworthy | Jon (Howie) | 1935-2014 | poet and literary critic 2

Streatfeild | Mary Noel | 1895-1986 | author 2

Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 2

Treby | Ivor | 1933-2012 | poet, gay literary activist and Michael Field researcher 2

Trollope | Anthony | 1815-1882 | novelist 2

Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 2

Wordsworth | Christopher | fl. 1910 2

de la Mare | Walter | 1873-1956 | author and poet 2

Abbo of Fleury | ? 945-1004 | French monk 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

Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 1

Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | Author 1

Adcock | Arthur St John | 1864-1930 | Novelist 1

Adcock | Marion L | fl 1879-1890 1

Algarotti | Francesco | 1712-1764 | Poet and scholar 1

Amis | Martin Louis | b 1949 | author 1

Anderson | J G C | fl 1901 1

Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 1

Armiger | Miles Christian | fl. 20th century 1

Ashbaugh | Dennis | 1946- | Artist 1

Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 1

Ault | Norman | 1880-1950 | Author and Artist 1

Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 1

Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1

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Language

English 508

French 23

German 18

Latin 14

Italian 10

Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 8

Spanish; Castilian 7

Dutch; Flemish 6

Polish 4

Russian 4

Chinese 3

Czech 3

Danish 3

Japanese 3

Welsh 3

Basque 2

Greek, Modern (1453-) 2

Croatian 2

Norwegian 2

Swedish 2

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Afrikaans 1

Arabic 1

Catalan; Valencian 1

Estonian 1

Finnish 1

Irish 1

Hebrew 1

Portuguese 1

Scots 1

Swahili 1

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