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English literature 78
20th century 55
Poetry 44
Humanities 39
English poetry 29
19th century 28
English poetry -- 20th century 24
English literature -- 20th century 19
Literature 19
Poets 19
21st century 15
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17th century 9
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18th century 7
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Letters 7
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
English literature -- 19th century 6
Poems 6
Poets -- 20th century 6
University of Oxford 6
Commonplace books 5
English language 5
Poets, English -- Correspondence 5
Authors 4
English literature -- 21st century 4
Literary criticism 4
Poetry -- 20th century 4
University of Oxford -- Students 4
Children's literature -- 20th century 3
English literature -- 18th century 3
Poets, English 3
Sermons 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
Cricket 1
Devon (England) 1
Diaries 1
Drama -- 19th century 1
Drama -- 20th century 1
Economics 1
England -- Nottingham 1
England -- Oxford 1
England -- Television and Film -- 20th century 1
English literature -- 16th century 1
English literature -- History and criticism 1
English literature--20th century 1
English poetry -- 16th century 1
Fiction 1
Folklore 1
Folklore and children 1
Germany 1
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 1
Great Britain -- Politics and Government -- 17th century 1
History 1
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Indexed names
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 6
University of Oxford 4
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
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
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

Poems for Anthony Thwaite, a manuscript volume of signed holograph poems collected from notable poets

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22154
A volume of signed holograph poems collected from notable poets, given by Ann Thwaite to her husband Anthony Thwaite for his 50th birthday.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1980

Pre-publication mock up of Stephen Spender's The Edge of Being

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21432
Pre-publication mock up of Stephen Spender's The Edge of Being, 1949.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1949

Printouts of Excerpts from a Work in Progress by Geoffrey Hill

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8410, fols. 66-70
Printouts of Excerpts from a Work in Progress by Geoffrey Hill, 2010.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates: 2010

Prize winning essays and poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23165
Comprises printout copies of: Poem 'Leaving you by train through England' by Howard Anglin, Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize Poem 'Trente et Quarante' by Jennifer Kim, Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize Essay 'A Conversational Study With A Tempestuous Figure' by Oliver Bingham, Matthew Arnold Prize Poem 'Outermost' by Nicholas Stone, Sir Roger Newdigate...
Extents: 1 box (1 folder)
Dates: 2023

Prize winning essays and poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2024

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23781
Prize winning essays and poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2024.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2024

Prize winning poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2025

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 6, fols. 37-44.
Prize winning poems from the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2025.
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: 2025

Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions)

 Collection
Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
Extents: 82 shelfmarks and 37 objects
Dates: 1577-1992 (predominantly 18th-20th cent.)

Stanley Family Papers

 Collection
Stanley Family Papers.
Extents: 0.20 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1820-1830

The Stoughton manuscript of English poetry

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 157
The Stoughton manuscript of English poetry.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: original dated 17th century

Three letters from Stephen Spender to Martin Filler regarding his contributions to Design Quarterly

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 92-95
Three letters from Stephen Spender to Martin Filler regarding his contributions to Design Quarterly, 1992.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: 1992

A transcript of Robert Bridges' Eros and Psyche

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 213
A transcript of Robert Bridges’ Eros and Psyche.
Extents: 170 pages
Dates: 1884-1885

Two seventeenth century manuscripts relating to Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia

 Collection
Manuscripts relating to Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 17th cent.

Typescript copy of an article on John Masefield from the San Francisco Call

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 104-105
Typescript copy of an article on John Masefield from the San Francisco Call
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1913

Typescript poem ('the pubic hair collection') by Ivor Treby with related material including Dorian Opera programmes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 79-87
Catalogue of typescript poem ('the pubic hair collection') by Ivor Treby with related material including Dorian Opera programmes, 1982-1983.
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates: 1982-1983

Verse letter by John Donne, 1611-1612, published, with a facsimile, by Dame Helen Gardner, John Donne's holograph of 'A letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche' (London, 1972)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 197
Verse letter by John Donne, 1611-12, published, with a facsimile, by Dame Helen Gardner, John Donne's holograph of 'A letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche' (London, 1972).
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1611-1612, 1972

Verses written by Jane Austen

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 92, fols. 45-46
Verses written by Jane Austen.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 15 Jul 1817

W.H. Auden's typescript introduction to The Pied Piper and other fairy tales of Joseph Jacobs (1962); and corrected page proofs for his Afterwards to George MacDonald's The Golden Key (1967)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 6, fols. 1-16
W.H. Auden's typescript introduction to The Pied Piper and other fairy tales of Joseph Jacobs (1962); and corrected page proofs for his Afterwards to George MacDonald's The Golden Key (1967).
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: 1962-1967

William Collins, 'Ode to a Friend on his Return, etc.'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Dep. e. 87
Autograph copy of William Collins, 'Ode to a Friend on his Return, etc.', with a later copy by Dr Alexander Carlyle
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: [1749?], 1788