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Literature 861
20th century 572
19th century 390
17th century 303
18th century 282
English literature 250
Poetry 157
16th century 154
English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 123
Letters 120
Religion 114
21st century 69
Greek literature 69
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History 45
Latin literature 45
Literature -- Translations 45
Classical literature 43
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English poetry 42
Antiquarians 40
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Church 37
English poetry -- 20th century 37
Children's literature -- 20th century 33
x - 15th century 33
Authors 32
Theology 32
Literature -- 20th century 31
Authors -- 20th century 28
Books 27
Correspondence 26
Manuscripts 26
Playwriting -- Drama 25
Religious literature, English 24
Novelists -- 19th century 22
Royal family 21
Novelists -- 20th century 19
Diaries 18
Oxford (England) 18
x - 14th century 18
Classical literature -- Study and teaching 17
Commonplace books 17
Sermons 17
English poetry -- 21st century 16
Essays 16
Letters -- 20th century 16
English literature -- 18th century 15
Music 15
x - 12th century 15
Authors, English -- 20th century 14
Biography 14
Law 14
x - 13th century 14
Art 13
Authors, English 13
Authors, classical 13
French literature 13
Ireland 13
Italian literature 13
University of Oxford 13
English language 12
German literature 12
English poetry -- Women authors 11
Lectures and lecturing 11
London (England) 11
Philosophy 11
Photographs 11
Politics and Government 11
Prayers 11
Latin poetry 10
Bible 9
Bodleian Library 9
Literary criticism 9
Northamptonshire (England) 9
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9
Political satire 9
Spanish literature 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
x - 11th century 9
Antiquities 8
Basque literature 8
Catholic Church 8
Drama 8
Dutch literature 8
English literature -- 21st century 8
Journalism 8
Liturgies 8
Medicine 8
Oxfordshire (England) 8
Poetry -- 20th century 8
Publishers and publishing 8
Scholars 8
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 8
University of Oxford -- Students 8
Academic writing 7
Accounts 7
Artists 7
Authors -- 19th century 7
Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 57
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 14
University of Oxford 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
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 9
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 7
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 7
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 7
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 6
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 6
Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 6
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 5
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 5
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 5
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 5
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 5
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 5
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5
Spelman | Sir | Henry | 1564-1641 | Knight | Historian and Antiquary 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
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 4
Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 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
Hermogenes | 161-180 | of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician 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
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 4
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 4
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 3
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 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
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Elmsley | Peter | 1773-1825 | Classical Scholar 3
Eusebius of Caesarea | 265-339 AD | historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist 3
Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 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
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
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
Poynton | Arthur Blackburne | 1867-1944 | Greek scholar 3
Raleigh | Sir | Walter | 1861-1922 | Knight | Literary scholar and historian 3
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | playwright and poet 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
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 3
University of Oxford | Students 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 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
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2
Apollonius | b. 295 BC | of Rhodes | author and poet 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 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
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2

Archive of the Greene Family

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Graham Carleton Greene (1936-2016) publisher and his mother, Helga Greene (née Guinness) (1916-1985) literary agent.
Extents: 4.7 Linear metres (70 boxes)
Dates: [c.1890]-2004

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

Archive of the Tilling Society (E.F. Benson and the Benson Family)

 Collection
Papers of the Tilling Society (1982-2006), a group set up to celebrate the life and works of the author Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940).
Extents: 4.0 Linear metres (24 physical shelfmarks; 5 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: c.1800-2009

Archive of Thomas Percy

 Collection
Archive of Thomas Percy (1729-1811).
Extents: 2.59 Linear metres (34 boxes)
Dates: 17th-19th century

Archive of Victoria Glendinning

 Collection
Archive of Victoria Glendinning
Extents: 7.05 linear metres (113 boxes)
Dates: c.1865-2023; Majority of material found within 1958-2023, n.d.

Archive of Vivien Greene

 Collection
Archive of Vivien Greene comprising personal papers, literary papers, and material relating to dolls' houses.
Extents: 6.0 Linear metres (8 boxes); 596.0 box (10 containers)
Dates: 1810-2003

Archive of Wilfred Owen and family members

 Collection
Papers and autograph manuscripts of Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), poet, with papers of other family members.
Extents: 7.7 Linear metres (75 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c.1820-2003, n.d.

Archive of William Beckford

 Collection
Papers of William Beckford (1760-1844), author
Extents: 17.6 Linear metres (176 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1515-19th cent., n.d.

'An Argument vpon the question of Impositions ...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 116
'An Argument vpon the question of Impositions ...'
Extents: 95 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first half of the 17th century

'Arispe [altered later to Aurispe] viri clarissimi Epistolarum H[i]p-pocratis translatio'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. class. e. 19
'Arispe [altered later to Aurispe] viri clarissimi Epistolarum H[i]p-pocratis translatio'
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 16th century in Italy

Aristoxenus etc.: musical treatises

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. F. 1. 3
Aristoxenus etc.: musical treatises
Extents: 290 Leaves
Dates: Written late in the 16th century

Aristoxenus etc.: musical treatises

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. F. 1. 4
Aristoxenus etc.: musical treatises
Extents: 288 Leaves
Dates: Written late in the 16th century

Article by Thomas Woolner, 'James Chambers, a beggar poet'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 660
Article by Thomas Woolner, 'James Chambers, a beggar poet'
Extents: 55 Leaves
Dates: June 1887

Articles, book reviews etc. by William Monk Gibbon

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 700
Articles, book reviews etc. by William Monk Gibbon
Extents: 118 Leaves
Dates: 1974-1977

Articuli ... ecclesiae Anglicanae (London, 1575) interleaved with a copy of the English version of the 1562 articles

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 111
Articuli ... ecclesiae Anglicanae (London, 1575) interleaved with a copy of the English version of the 1562 articles
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: 1720

Askew Manuscripts

 Collection
Manuscripts collected by Anthony Askew, relating to classical literature.
Extents: 2.42 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates: 18th century

Astrological data prepared by A. G. S. Norris

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 70
Astrological data prepared by A. G. S. Norris
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates: c. 1956-1957

Astrological treatises in Spanish, but only excerpts or abstracts of larger works

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 628
Astrological treatises in Spanish, but only excerpts or abstracts of larger works
Extents: 638 Leaves
Dates: Written late in the 16th century

Auction catalogue for the sale of Warren Lewis’s personal effects

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 1-11
Auction catalogue for the sale of Warren Lewis’s personal effects, Buckell & Ballard, Banbury, Tuesday 30 Oct 1973.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 30 Oct 1973

Author's copy of 'Love verses' and 'Miscellanys' and translations, including occasional verse expressing Whig and Low Church sympathies

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 55
Author's copy of 'Love verses' and 'Miscellanys' and translations, including occasional verse expressing Whig and Low Church sympathies, compiled c. 1680-1704
Extents: 37 Leaves
Dates: c. 1680-1704