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Poetry 347
20th century 297
19th century 210
Literature 166
18th century 128
17th century 121
Poets 116
English poetry 82
English literature 78
English poetry -- 20th century 70
Humanities 67
Letters 54
16th century 41
21st century 38
Correspondence 32
Poetry -- 20th century 32
Poems 29
Latin poetry 27
English poetry -- 21st century 23
English poetry -- Women authors 22
Religion 21
English literature -- 20th century 19
English poetry -- 19th century 18
Welsh poetry 17
Manuscripts 15
Poets -- 20th century 15
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 14
Literature -- 20th century 12
Authors 11
University of Oxford 11
English poetry -- 17th century 10
Oxford (England) 10
Poetry, English 10
Political satire 10
Essays 9
Religious poetry 9
World War, 1914-1918 9
Latin literature 8
Letters -- 20th century 8
Literature -- Translations 8
Poetry -- 17th century 8
Poetry -- 18th century 8
Poetry -- 19th century 8
Sermons 8
War poetry 8
x - 15th century 8
Authors -- 20th century 7
Diaries 7
English poetry -- 18th century 7
Literary criticism 7
Theology 7
University of Oxford -- Students 7
Commonplace books 6
English literature -- 19th century 6
Epic poetry 6
Poetry, English -- 19th century 6
Poetry, Greek 6
Poetry, Italian 6
Poets laureate 6
Poets, English 6
Poets, English -- Correspondence 6
Antiquarians 5
English language 5
French literature 5
Greek literature 5
Historians 5
History 5
Music 5
Novelists -- 19th century 5
Playwriting -- Drama 5
Poetry, English -- 18th century 5
Poets -- 19th century 5
Poets, English -- 19th century 5
Politics and Government 5
Religious literature, English 5
Scholars 5
University of Oxford -- Intellectual life 5
x - 14th century 5
Art 4
Bible 4
Children's literature -- 20th century 4
Classical literature 4
Diaries -- 18th century 4
Drama 4
Drama -- 20th century 4
English literature -- 21st century 4
Illumination of books and manuscripts 4
Law 4
Lectures and lecturing 4
Manuscripts, Latin 4
Medicine 4
Novelists -- 20th century 4
Philosophy 4
Poetry, English -- 17th century 4
Songs 4
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 3
Authors, English -- Correspondence 3
Ballads 3
Biography 3
Christianity 3
Indexed names
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 17
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 13
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 12
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 12
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 8
University of Oxford 8
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 7
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 7
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 6
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 5
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 5
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 5
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 4
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 4
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 4
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St Paul's, poet 4
Donne | John | 1573-1631 | Dean of St. Paul's and poet 4
Eliot | Thomas Stearns | 1888-1965 | poet 4
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 4
Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet 4
Jones | Monica Margaret Beal | 1922-2001 | lecturer in English 4
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4
Sassoon | Siegfried | 1886-1967 | poet 4
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 4
Welcker | Adair | fl. 1886-1904 | Author 4
Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 4
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 3
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 3
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 3
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 3
Causley | Charles Stanley | 1917-2003 | poet 3
Cowper | William | 1731-1800 | poet 3
Dobell | Bertram | 1842-1914 | Bookseller and Man of Letters 3
Hayley | William | 1745-1820 | Poet 3
Hopkins | Gerard Manley | 1844-1889 | poet 3
Keats | John | 1795-1821 | Poet 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Morris | William | 1834-1896 | poet, artist, and socialist 3
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 3
Skinner | Martyn | 1906-1993 | Poet 3
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 3
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 3
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 2
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 2
Albert | 1819-1861 | Prince Consort of Queen Victoria 2
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 2
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
Bridges | Edward Ettingdene | 1892-1969 | civil servant 2
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet 2
Burhill | Robert | bap. 1572-1641 | Church of England clergyman 2
Burns | Robert | 1759-1796 | poet 2
Butler | William Huxford | 1934-1977 | poet 2
Byron | George Gordon | 6th Baron Byron | 1788-1824 | poet 2
Campbell | Thomas | 1777-1844 | Poet 2
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 2
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 2
Colvil | Samuel | fl. 1640-1681 2
Daryush | Elizabeth | 1887-1977 | née Bridges | poet 2
Davis | Sir | Rupert Charles | Hart- | 1907-1999 | knight | author, editor, and publisher 2
Dee | John | 1527-1608 | Mathematician and Astrologer 2
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 2
Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 | Queen of England and Ireland 2
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 2
Fox | Adam | 1883-1977 | Canon of Westminster 2
Gardner | Dame | Helen Louise | 1908-1986 | literary scholar 2
Gibson | Wilfrid Wilson | 1878-1962 | Georgian poet 2
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 2
Green | Candida Rose Lycett | 1942-2014 | née Betjeman | author and conservationist 2
Guiney | Louise Imogen | 1861-1920 | American Poet and Essayist 2
Hardy | Thomas | 1840–1928 | novelist and poet 2
Hawker | Robert Stephen | 1803-1875 | vicar of Morwenstow, poet and antiquary 2
Heaney | Seamus | 1939-2013 | Poet and Lecturer 2
Heber | Reginald | 1783-1826 | Bishop of Calcutta 2
Herrick | Robert | 1591-1674 | poet 2
Jenkins | Margaret Elizabeth Heald | 1905-2010 | novelist and biographer 2
Jonson | Benjamin | c. 1573-1637 | poet 2
King | Henry | 1592-1669 | poet and bishop of Chichester 2
Lane | John | 1854-1925 | Publisher 2
Lewis | Alun | 1915-1944 | poet 2
Lewis | Cecil Day | 1904-1972 | poet 2
Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher 2
Madan | Judith | 1702-1781 | Poet 2
Maro | Publius Vergilius | c 70-19 BC | Roman poet known as Virgil 2
Marvell Press | publisher 2
Masefield | (Isabel) Judith | 1904-1988 | book illustrator 2
Mason | William | 1724-1797 | poet 2
Newbolt | Sir | Henry John | 1862-1938 | Knight Poet and Author 2
Nichols | John Bowyer | 1779-1863 | printer and antiquary 2
Ovidius Naso | Publius | 43 BC-AD 17 | Roman poet 2
Parkyn | Robert | d.1569 | Church of England clergyman and writer 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 2
Prokosch | Frederic | 1908-1989 | calligrapher and poet 2
Queen's University Belfast 2
Randolph | Thomas | 1605-1635 | poet 2
Rathbone | Gillian | fl 2010 | poet 2

'17th century. The Poems of Gruffydd ap Ieuan...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Welsh f. 2
'17th century. The Poems of Gruffydd ap Ieuan...'
Extents: 106 Leaves
Dates: Written in different hands of the 17th century

'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

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

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

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

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

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

Additional papers of Adam Fox

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

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

Album connected with the Byron family

 Single Item
Album connected with the Byron family, 19th century.
Extents: 162 Leaves
Dates: 19th century

An album containing poems written in a faux-Gothic calligraphic hand and illuminated in the style of a medieval manuscript

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4169
An album containing poems written in a faux-Gothic calligraphic hand and illuminated in the style of a medieval manuscript, by an unidentified author-artist
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates: n.d.

Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. gen. d. 33
Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings, 19th century.
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates: 19th century

Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 181
Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches
Extents: 124 Leaves
Dates: 1827-1836

Album of manuscript verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1844-1848

Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.

Album of Mary Barker

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 36
Album of Mary Barker
Extents: 119 Leaves
Dates: Compiled c. 1813-1841

Album of verse and letters by Austin Dobson, 1885-1920, collected by and mainly addressed to J. W. Martyn

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 186
Album of verse and letters by Austin Dobson, 1885-1920, collected by and mainly addressed to J. W. Martyn.
Extents: 144 Leaves
Dates: 1885-1920

Albums of the Edgeworth and Fox families

 Collection
Three albums, consisting of a commonplace book of Frances Anne Edgeworth, an embroidery pattern book, and an album of sketches and watercolours, with drawings by Mary Anne Fox.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (4 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 19th century

Alchemical treatises and poems, and Welsh pieces

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. e Mus. 63
Alchemical treatises and poems, and Welsh pieces
Extents: 175 Leaves
Dates: Made up of two MSS. written in the 16th century in England

Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 1
Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 2022

Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2571/1-3
Amended typescript by Peter Bladen, 'The Septangle. A Poetical Symposium', completed
Extents: 402 Leaves
Dates: 1991