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Literature 676

20th century 500

19th century 336

18th century 219

17th century 191

English literature 152

Poetry 131

English literature -- 20th century 121

Letters 109

Religion 66

16th century 63

Humanities 53

Poets 52

21st century 43

English literature -- 19th century 40

History 37

Poems 36

English Literature 35

Literature -- Translations 35

Antiquarians 31

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English poetry 30

Literature -- 20th century 27

Authors 26

Church 26

Children's literature 25

English poetry -- 20th century 25

Correspondence 24

Authors -- 20th century 22

Classical literature 21

Religious literature, English 21

Manuscripts 20

x - 15th century 19

Books 18

Theology 18

Novelists 17

Playwriting -- Drama 17

Sermons 17

Diaries 16

Oxford (England) 15

Royal family 15

Letters -- 20th century 14

English literature -- 18th century 13

Essays 13

Ireland 13

Novelists -- 20th century 13

Biography 12

Commonplace books 11

English language 11

Latin literature 11

Law 11

London (England) 11

Music 11

Lectures and lecturing 10

Politics and Government 10

14th century 9

Art 9

Greek literature 9

Literary criticism 9

Northamptonshire (England) 9

Political satire 9

Antiquities 8

Authors, Classical 8

Drama 8

Journalism 8

Oxfordshire (England) 8

13th century 7

Academic writing 7

Accounts 7

Poetry -- 20th century 7

Publishers and publishing 7

War poetry 7

Women authors, English -- 20th century 7

x - 12th century 7

Authors -- 19th century 6

Authors, English -- 20th century 6

Bible 6

Bodleian Library 6

Church of England -- Clergy 6

England 6

English literature -- 17th century 6

Norfolk (England) 6

Prayers 6

Authors, English 5

Basque literature 5

Bibliography 5

Catholic Church 5

Childrens literature -- 20th century 5

Diaries -- 20th century 5

English poetry -- 19th century 5

English poetry -- 21st century 5

French literature 5

Liturgies 5

Medicine 5

Philosophy 5

Photography 5

Poets -- 20th century 5

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

Publishing 5

Scholars 5

Theater -- England 5

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Indexed names

Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 54

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

Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11

Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 10

University of Oxford 9

Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8

Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 8

Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 8

Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7

Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7

Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 7

Williams | Charles | 1886-1945 | author 7

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

Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 6

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

Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 5

Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5

Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 5

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

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

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

Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5

Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 4

Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | Author 4

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

Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 4

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

Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 4

Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 4

Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4

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

Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4

Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 4

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

Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4

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

Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4

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

Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3

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

Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 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

Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer, pseudonym John le Carré 3

Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 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

Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3

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

Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 3

Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 3

Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 3

Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 3

Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3

Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3

Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3

Raleigh | Sir | Walter | 1861-1922 | Knight | Literary scholar and historian 3

Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 3

Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3

Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 3

Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3

Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 3

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

Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 3

Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 3

Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 2

Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 2

Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2

Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2

Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary and biographer 2

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

Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 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

Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2

Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 2

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

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

Burton | Edward | 1794-1836 | Professor of Divinity 2

Codrington | Robert | 1601/2-1665 | Translator and writer 2

Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 2

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

Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 2

Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 2

Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2

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

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

Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 2

Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 2

Elmsley | Peter | 1773-1825 | Classical Scholar 2

Fairfax | Thomas | 1612-1671 | 3rd Baron Fairfax | politician, general, and Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War 2

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

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

Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 2

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Language

Latin 86

French 38

Italian 24

German 23

Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 17

Spanish; Castilian 10

Dutch; Flemish 8

Greek, Modern (1453-) 7

Irish 6

Welsh 6

English, Old (ca.450-1100) 5

Danish 4

Portuguese 4

Arabic 3

Chinese 3

Cornish 3

Japanese 3

Polish 3

Russian 3

Basque 2

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Catalan; Valencian 2

Czech 2

Croatian 2

Multiple languages 2

Norwegian 2

Scots 2

Swedish 2

Afrikaans 1

Basa 1

Coptic 1

English, Middle (1100-1500) 1

Estonian 1

Finnish 1

French, Old (842-ca.1400) 1

Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1

Hebrew 1

Persian 1

Provençal, Old (to 1500) 1

Romance languages 1

Swahili 1

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