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27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5

27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1819
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The Abinger Papers

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
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Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs

Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.
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Additional papers of Adam Fox

Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1912-1976
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Album of manuscript verse

Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1844-1848
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Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem

Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 1
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 2022
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Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

Correspondence and papers of the poet and writer Anne Ridler (1912-2001) and her husband Vivian Ridler (1913-2009), printer to the Oxford University Press and founder of Perpetua Press.
Extents: 5.596 Linear metres (81 boxes)
Dates: 1836-2011, n.d.; Majority of material found within 1927 - 2011
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Archive of Audrey Beecham

Papers of Audrey Beecham (1915-1989), poet and academic, with a small number of boxes concerning the wider Beecham family.
Extents: 6.70 Linear metres (100 boxes)
Dates: 1845-1988, n.d.
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Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon

The archive of the poet and novelist C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] (1904-1972) and his wife, the actress Jill Balcon (1925-2009).
Extents: 9.3 Linear metres (66 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1928-2009; 1778-2009
Collection

Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice

Papers of the poet and playwright Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), with papers of Hedli MacNeice, née Anderson (1907-1990)
Extents: 10.17 Linear metres (76 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1917-1989; n.d.
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Archive of Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer

Correspondence and papers of Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet and writer
Extents: 8.22 Linear meters (117 containers)
Dates: 1799-2021
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Archive of Geoffrey Tillotson

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

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

The archive of the poet, novelist and playwright John Masefield (1878-1967), Poet Laureate from 1930-1967.
Extents: 7.188 Linear metres (135 boxes)
Dates: 1901-1968
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Archive of Robert Stephen Hawker

Archive of Robert Stephen Hawker
Extents: 1.67 Linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates: 1807-1965
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Archive of the Noel, Byron and Lovelace Families

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
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Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn

Collection of miscellaneous pieces in Latin and English prose and verse by Robert Parkyn, curate of Adwick-le-Street, near Doncaster, Yorks.
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. th. d. 15
Extents: 159 Leaves
Dates: 1532-1565
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Collection of photographic portraits by Mariana Cook

15 silver gelatin photographic prints by Mariana R. Cook. 6 works depicting tools, and 9 portraits of notable figures.
Extents: 0.7 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1987-2021
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Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others

Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 57
Extents: 82 Leaves
Dates: 17th century
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Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse

Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse
Shelfmark: MS. 23614
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c. 1822-1852

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English literature 77
20th century 55
Poetry 43
Humanities 38
19th century 28
English poetry 28
English poetry -- 20th century 24
English literature -- 20th century 19
Literature 19
Poets 19
21st century 14
English poetry -- 21st century 11
Correspondence 10
17th century 9
Literature -- 20th century 9
English poetry -- Women authors 8
18th century 7
English poetry -- 19th century 7
Letters 7
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
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English literature -- 19th century 6
Poems 6
Poets -- 20th century 6
Commonplace books 5
English language 5
Poets, English -- Correspondence 5
University of Oxford 5
Authors 4
English literature -- 21st century 4
Literary criticism 4
Poetry -- 20th century 4
Children's literature -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 18th century 3
Poets, English 3
Sermons 3
University of Oxford -- Students 3
War poetry 3
16th century 2
Art 2
Authors -- 20th century 2
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 2
Authors, English -- Correspondence 2
English literature -- 17th century 2
English poetry -- 17th century 2
English poetry -- 18th century 2
Essays 2
Feminism 2
Historians 2
Inklings (Group of writers) 2
Latin literature 2
Lectures and lecturing 2
Novelists -- 19th century 2
Novelists -- 20th century 2
Playwriting -- Drama 2
Poetry -- 17th century 2
Poetry -- 19th century 2
Poetry, English 2
Poets laureate 2
Religious literature, English 2
Romanticism 2
Theater 2
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 2
Women scientists 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Academics 1
Activism 1
Agriculture 1
Antiquarians 1
Architecture 1
Authors -- 19th century 1
Authors, English 1
Authors, English -- 20th century 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 19th century 1
Christianity 1
Christianity -- 20th century 1
Classicists 1
Concerts -- England -- Oxford 1
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Devon (England) 1
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Drama -- 20th century 1
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England -- Nottingham 1
England -- Oxford 1
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English literature -- 16th century 1
English literature -- History and criticism 1
English literature--20th century 1
English poetry -- 16th century 1
Fiction 1
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Folklore and children 1
Germany 1
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 1
Great Britain -- Politics and Government -- 17th century 1
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Indexed names
University of Oxford | Prizes 7
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 3
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 3
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 3
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 3
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 3
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 3
University of Oxford 3
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 2
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 2
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 2
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 2
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
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University of Oxford | Students 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
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 1
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 1
Balcon | Jill Angela Henriette | 1925-2009 | actress and broadcaster 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 1
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | antiquary and editor 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 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
Byron | George Gordon | 6th Baron Byron | 1788-1824 | poet 1
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 1
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 1
Cook | Mariana R. | b.1955 | Photographer 1
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 1
Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973 | German scholar 1
Deneke | Margaret Clara Adèle | 1882-1969 | author and musicologist 1
Desaguliers | John Theophilus | 1683-1744 | natural philosopher and engineer 1
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 1
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 1
Dryden | John | 1631-1700 | poet, playwright, and critic 1
Fanshawe | Sir | Richard | 1608-1666 | 1st Baronet | Diplomat and Author 1
Filler | Martin Myles | b.1948 | American architecture critic and writer 1
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 1
Fisher | John | c.1469-1535 | Saint | bishop of Rochester, cardinal, and martyr 1
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 1
Foster | (Myles) Birket | 1825–1899 | painter and illustrator 1
Fox | Adam | 1883-1977 | Canon of Westminster 1
Franklyn | Edna | née Lomas | 1903-1999 | dressmaker and writer 1
Gardner | Dame | Helen Louise | 1908-1986 | literary scholar 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
Gosse | Sir | Edmund William | 1849-1928 | Knight | poet, biographer and literary critic 1
Green | Candida Rose Lycett | 1942-2014 | née Betjeman | author and conservationist 1
Grigson | Geoffrey Edward Harvey | 1905-1985 | poet and writer 1
Hill | Geoffrey William | 1932-2016 | poet 1
Holland | Vyvyan Beresford | 1886-1967 | author and translator 1
Holmes | Arthur | fl.1918 | poet 1
Howitt | Mary | 1799-1888 | poet 1
Jenkins | Sir | Leoline | 1625-1685 | Academic and diplomat 1
Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 1
Jones | Evan | 1927-2023 | poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter 1
Jones | John Pike | 1790-1857 | Antiquary 1
Jones | Monica Margaret Beal | 1922-2001 | lecturer in English 1
King | Ada Augusta | 1815-1852 | mathematician | wife of 1st Earl Lovelace 1
King | William | 1805-1893 | 1st Earl of Lovelace 1
Krishnan | Maya | fl 2022 | DPhil student at the University of Oxford 1
Landon | Letitia Elizabeth | 1802-1838 | poet and writer | pseudonym "L.E.L." 1
MacDonald | George | 1824–1905 | poet and novelist 1
MacNeice | Antoinette Millicent Hedley ('Hedli') | 1907-1990 | nee Anderson | singer and actress 1
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 1
Mare | Richard Herbert Ingpen de la | 1901-1986 | publisher 1
Marinoff | Fania | fl. 1948 1
Masefield | (Isabel) Judith | 1904-1988 | book illustrator 1
Masefield | Jack 1
Maxwell | J G | poet 1
McDougall | Phyllis (née Jones, afterwards Somervaille) | 1901-2001 1
Milbanke | Ralph Gordon Noel King | 2nd Earl of Lovelace | 1839-1906 1
Milbanke-Noel | Judith | 1751-1822 | nee Noel, afterwards Milbanke | wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke-Noel 1
Milbanke-Noel | Sir | Ralph | 1747-1825 | | 6th Baronet | MP for Durham 1
Milton | John | 1608-1674 | Poet 1
Moore | Thomas Sturge | 1870-1944 | writer and wood engraver 1
More | Sir | Thomas | 1478-1535 | Saint | lord chancellor, humanist, and martyr 1
Parkyn | Robert | d.1569 | Church of England clergyman and writer 1
Peplow | Alexander | fl 2022 | DPhil candidate, Merton College, University of Oxford 1
Plunkett | Edward John Moreton Drax | 1878-1957 | 18th Baron of Dunsany | writer 1
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 1
Prior | Matthew | 1664-1721 | poet and diplomat 1
Ridler | Vivian Hughes | 1913-2009 | printer, typographer and scholar 1
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Language
English 95
French 8
Latin 8
German 5
Spanish; Castilian 3
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 2
Chinese 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Hungarian 1
Italian 1