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18th century 128
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19th century 46
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English poetry -- 18th century 8
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x - 15th century 2
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Artists 1
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Bible 1
Biography 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 19th century 1
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Elegiac poetry, Latin 1
English literature -- 17th century 1
Indexed names
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 5
Cowper | William | 1731-1800 | poet 3
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 3
Hayley | William | 1745-1820 | Poet 3
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Burns | Robert | 1759-1796 | poet 2
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 2
Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher 2
Madan | Judith | 1702-1781 | Poet 2
Mason | William | 1724-1797 | poet 2
Ovidius Naso | Publius | 43 BC-AD 17 | Roman poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 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
Taylor | Sir | Henry | 1800-1886 | Knight Author 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Adimari | Lodovico | 1644-1708 | poet 1
Albert | 1819-1861 | Prince Consort of Queen Victoria 1
Aldrich | Henry | fl 1685-1710 | sub-dean and dean of Christ Church 1
Allan | George | 1736-1880 | antiquary and topographer 1
Amherst | Elizabeth | c.1716-1779 | poet and amateur naturalist 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Aubrey | Herbert | fl. 1729 | of Clehonger, Herefs. 1
Augustine | d 604 | Saint, first Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Bacon | Phanuel | 1700-1783 | Church of England clergyman and writer 1
Barber | Eric Arthur | 1888-1965 | classical scholar 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Boutflower | Cecil Henry | Right Reverend | 1863-1942 | bishop 1
Bowles | William Lisle | 1762-1850 | Canon of Salisbury, Poet, and Antiquary 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Bright | William | 1824-1901 | Ecclesiastical Historian 1
Brydges | Samuel Egerton | 1762-1837 | 13th Baron Chandos | Writer and genealogist 1
Burdett | Sir | Francis | 1770-1844 | 5th Baronet | politician 1
Burnett | George | 1774/5-1811 | writer 1
Burton | John | 1710-1771 | Antiquary 1
Butler | Alfred Joshua | 1850-1936 | historian 1
Butler | Rohan D'Olier | 1917-1996 | historian and civil servant 1
Butler | Sir | Harold Beresford | 1883-1951 | civil servant 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Byron | Anne Isabella | 1792-1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron | Social reformer and philanthropist 1
Byron | George Gordon | 1788-1824 | | 6th Baron Byron | poet 1
Caroline of Anspach | 1683-1737 | Wife of George II 1
Chapman | Thomas | fl 1766 | author 1
Charlett | Arthur | 1655-1722 | Master of University College Oxford 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Cholmondeley | Mary | 1787-1846 | nee Heber 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Churchill | Charles | 1732-1764 | poet 1
Collier | Jeremy | 1650-1726 | nonjuror 1
Collingwood | Robin George | 1889-1943 | philosopher and historian 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 1
Coningsby | Thomas | 1657-1729 | first earl of Coningsby | politician 1
Cooper | J.G. | fl 1745-1762 1
Courthope | William John | 1842-1917 | Poet and literary scholar 1
Cowper | Maria Frances Cecilia | 1726-1797 | Poet 1
Cowper | family 1
Crabbe | George | 1785-1857 | Biographer 1
Desaguliers | John Theophilus | 1683-1744 | natural philosopher and engineer 1
Dodsley | Robert | 1703-1764 | Poet, dramatist and bookseller 1
Dovaston | John | 1740-1808 | nurseryman and antiquary 1
Dovaston | William | 1743-1765 1
Drummond | Robert Hay | 1711-1776 | archbishop of York 1
Dryden | John | 1631-1700 | poet, playwright, and critic 1
Edwards | Thomas | 1738-1810 | Welsh poet 1
Edwards | Thomas | ? 1651-1721 | Church of England clergyman and orientalist 1
Ellis | Sir | Henry | 1777-1869 | Librarian 1
Emmett | William | fl 1731-1732 1
England and Wales | Exchequer 1
England and Wales | Royal Navy 1
Eton College 1
Fairfax | Sir | William | d. 1597 | politician 1
Fanshawe | Sir | Richard | 1608-1666 | 1st Baronet | Diplomat and Author 1
Firth | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Sir | Knight and historian 1
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 1
Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror 1
Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister 1
French Protestant Church 1
Furse | John Henry Monsell | 1860-1950 | sculptor 1
Furse | Margaret Cecilia | 1890-1975 | née Newbolt | wife of Sir Ralph Furse 1
Furse | Ralph Dolignon | 1887-1973 | Sir | Knight and Colonial Administrator 1
Gilbert | Davies | 1767-1839 | Cornish engineer, author and politician 1
Gleig | George Robert | 1796-1888 | Chaplain to the armed forces and author 1
Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 1
Godwin | family 1
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 1
Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville 1
Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 1
Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely 1
Hardy | Thomas | 1840–1928 | novelist and poet 1
Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror 1
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 1
Heber | Reginald | 1728-1804 | fellow and tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford 1
Heber | Reginald | 1783-1826 | Bishop of Calcutta 1

'17th century. Welsh poems by various authors...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Welsh e. 4
'17th century. Welsh poems by various authors...'
Extents: 114 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 17th and 18th century

'18th century. Welsh poems by a great variety of authors in various hands...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Welsh f. 5
'18th century. Welsh poems by a great variety of authors in various hands...'
Extents: 210 Leaves
Dates: Written by different hands in the 18th century

The Abinger Papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937

Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 6
Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot, 23 March 1714.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 23 March 1714-1720

Anonymous poem, 'The Golden Age Revers'd', with a letter from David Fleeman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5374, fols. 88-90
Anonymous poem, 'The Golden Age Revers'd', with a letter from David Fleeman.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: n.d. [early 18th century?], 1986

'Archæologia Cornu = Britannica'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Cornish c. 1
'Archæologia Cornu = Britannica'
Extents: 370 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first half of the 18th century

Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

 Collection
Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: 1935-1964

Archive of George Crabbe

 Collection
Archive of George Crabbe
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1799-1914

Archive of John Everett Butt

 Collection
Correspondence and notes of John Everett Butt, 1932-64.
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1932-64

Archive of the Butler Family

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of three generations of the Butler Family; Alfred J. Butler (1850-1936), Harold Butler (1883-1951) and Rohan Butler (1917-1996).
Extents: 15.85 Linear metres (229 boxes)
Dates: 1818-2009, n.d.

Archive of the Madan Family

 Collection
Archive of the Madan Family
Extents: 1.14 Linear metres (18 boxes)
Dates: 1717-1837

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 William Parsons

 Collection
Archive of William Parsons, c. 1776-1824
Extents: 0.16 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: c. 1776-1824

Archive of W.L. Bowles

 Collection
Archive of W.L. Bowles
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1779-1840

The 'argumentum' and 'interpretatio' of Ovid's Ibis and Fasti

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. class. e. 21
The 'argumentum' and 'interpretatio' of Ovid's Ibis and Fasti, completed 22 Oct. 1744.
Extents: 66 Leaves
Dates: 1744

Autograph letter and poem of Robert Burns

 Collection
Autograph letter and poem of Robert Burns, written in about A.D. 1785-1795.
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: c.1785-1795

Biography of Charles Townsend, poet (1789-1870), by William Twopeny

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 916
Biography of Charles Townsend, poet (1789-1870), by William Twopeny
Extents: 128 pages
Dates: c. 1789-1870

Boreal Manuscripts

 Collection
A collection of 153 Scandinavian manuscripts.
Extents: 16.94 Linear metres (154 boxes)
Dates: 16th-19th century

'Cerddwriaeth. Cerdd Dafawd.'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Welsh f. 7
'Cerddwriaeth. Cerdd Dafawd.'
Extents: 22 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 18th century

Collection by William Parry, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. f. 13
Collection by William Parry, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.
Extents: 196 Leaves
Dates: 1713-1728