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Literature 861
20th century 573
19th century 392
17th century 303
18th century 282
English literature 255
Poetry 157
16th century 154
English literature -- 20th century 131
Humanities 128
Letters 121
Religion 114
21st century 70
Greek literature 69
Poets 62
English poetry 45
History 45
Latin literature 45
Literature -- Translations 45
Classical literature 43
English literature -- 19th century 43
Antiquarians 40
Poems 38
Church 37
English poetry -- 20th century 37
Children's literature -- 20th century 34
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
Novelists -- 20th century 21
Royal family 21
Commonplace books 18
Diaries 18
Oxford (England) 18
x - 14th century 18
Classical literature -- Study and teaching 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 14
Authors, English -- 20th century 14
Biography 14
Law 14
University of Oxford 14
x - 13th century 14
Art 13
Authors, classical 13
French literature 13
Ireland 13
Italian literature 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
Literary criticism 10
Women authors, English -- 20th century 10
Bible 9
Bodleian Library 9
English literature -- 21st century 9
Northamptonshire (England) 9
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9
Political satire 9
Spanish literature 9
x - 11th century 9
Antiquities 8
Basque literature 8
Catholic Church 8
Drama 8
Dutch literature 8
English poetry -- 19th 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
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
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 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
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