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20th century 571

Literature 277

English literature 153

English literature -- 20th century 130

Humanities 94

19th century 80

Letters 61

Poetry 61

21st century 49

English poetry -- 20th century 37

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Poets 37

Children's literature -- 20th century 33

Literature -- 20th century 31

Authors -- 20th century 28

Authors 22

English poetry 20

Novelists -- 20th century 18

Correspondence 17

Poems 17

Letters -- 20th century 16

18th century 15

Playwriting -- Drama 15

English literature -- 19th century 14

Authors, English -- 20th century 13

Novelists -- 19th century 13

Manuscripts 12

Religion 12

Authors, English 11

Art 9

Classical literature 9

Lectures and lecturing 9

Literature -- Translations 9

Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9

17th century 8

Essays 8

History 8

Literary criticism 8

Poetry -- 20th century 8

Women authors, English -- 20th century 8

Biography 7

English language 7

English poetry -- Women authors 7

German literature 7

Music 7

Photographs 7

Poets -- 20th century 7

University of Oxford 7

War poetry 7

16th century 6

Authors -- 19th century 6

Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 6

English literature -- 18th century 6

Journalism 6

Oxford (England) 6

Poets, English -- Correspondence 6

University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 6

World War, 1914-1918 6

Diaries 5

Diaries -- 20th century 5

English poetry -- 21st century 5

Fantasy fiction 5

Publishers and publishing 5

Academic writing 4

Art, British -- 20th century 4

Artists 4

French literature 4

Germany 4

Greek literature 4

Illustration of books 4

Photography 4

Publishing 4

Radio broadcasting -- Great Britain 4

Science fiction 4

Sermons 4

Spanish literature 4

Theater -- England 4

Africa 3

Africa -- Description and travel 3

Africa -- History -- 20th century 3

Agriculture -- Kenya 3

Anthropology 3

Autobiography 3

Basque literature 3

Bodleian Library 3

Calligraphy 3

Children's stories, English 3

Christianity -- 20th century 3

Cricket 3

Dissertations, Academic 3

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

English Fiction -- 20th century 3

English literature -- 21st century 3

Folklore and children 3

Illustrations 3

Inklings (Group of writers) 3

Ireland 3

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Exhibitions 3

Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 3

Land settlement -- Kenya 3

Philosophy 3

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Indexed names

Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 57

Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 14

Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12

Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11

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

Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10

Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9

Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9

Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7

University of Oxford 7

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

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

Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 5

Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 5

Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 5

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

Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5

Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4

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

Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 4

Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 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

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

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

Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3

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

Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 3

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

Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 3

Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 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 | novelist, poet, literary critic 3

Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2

Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2

Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 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

Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 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

Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2

Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author 2

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

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

Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 2

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

Fraenkel | Eduard David Mortier | 1888-1970 | classical scholar 2

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

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

Grahame | Elspeth | 1862-1946 | née Thomson | wife of Kenneth Grahame 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

Hughes | Shirley | 1927-2022 | freelance author and illustrator 2

Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 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

Mynors | Sir | Roger Aubrey Baskerville | 1903-1989 | Knight | classical scholar 2

Needham | Rodney | 1923-2006 | Anthropologist 2

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

Oxford University Writers' Club. 2

Pullman | Philip | b 1946 | writer 2

Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 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

Thwaite | Ann Barbara | 1932 | née Harrop | biographer 2

Thwaite | Anthony | b. 1930 | poet and writer 2

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

Trollope | Anthony | 1815-1882 | novelist 2

University of Oxford | Students 2

Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 2

Wordsworth | Christopher | fl. 1910 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

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Language

English 575

French 28

German 25

Latin 19

Italian 13

Spanish; Castilian 10

Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 8

Dutch; Flemish 7

Chinese 5

Polish 5

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Russian 5

Danish 4

Welsh 4

Czech 3

Japanese 3

Norwegian 3

Swedish 3

Basque 2

Irish 2

Greek, Modern (1453-) 2

Croatian 2

Portuguese 2

No linguistic content; Not applicable 2

Afrikaans 1

English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1

Arabic 1

Catalan; Valencian 1

Celtic languages 1

English, Middle (1100-1500) 1

Estonian 1

Finnish 1

Hebrew 1

Hungarian 1

Icelandic 1

Scots 1

Slovak 1

Swahili 1

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