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English poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:

Album of manuscript verse

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

Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

 Collection
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

Archive of Audrey Beecham

 Collection
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.

Archive of Felix Dennis

 Collection
Literary archive of Felix Dennis (1947-2014), magazine publisher and poet.
Extents: 16.5 Linear metres (137 physical shelfmarks; 36 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 1996-2014

Archive of John Masefield

 Collection
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

Archive of Mick Imlah

 Collection
Archive of the poet and literary critic Michael Ogilvie ('Mick') Imlah (1956-2009).
Extents: 4.5 Linear metres (28 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1944-2009

'Catalogue of 106 Poetical Tracts from a MS. written in the reign of K. James I. and found in the cover of a volume...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 227
'Catalogue of 106 Poetical Tracts from a MS. written in the reign of K. James I. and found in the cover of a volume...'
Extents: 37 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1830 by P. Bliss

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

Collection, copied c.1735, of satires, occasional verse and prose

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. f. 12
Collection, copied c.1735, of satires, occasional verse and prose.
Extents: 168 pages
Dates: c.1735

Collection of Andrew Marvell's poetry made by William Popple

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 49
Collection of Andrew Marvell's poetry made by William Popple.
Extents: 296 pages
Dates: 1681, n.d.

Collection of anonymous lyrics and sonnets, probably by a member of the Woolner family

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 198
Collection of anonymous lyrics and sonnets, probably by a member of the Woolner family. 19th century.
Extents: 239 Leaves
Dates: 19th century

Collection of prose and verse, copied in one hand

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 37
Collection of prose and verse, copied in one hand, first half of 17th century.
Extents: 158 pages
Dates: First half of the 17th century

Collection of verse entitled Leisure moments or metrical attempts by Tyro, part 3rd, Canterbury, 1831

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 132
Collection of verse entitled Leisure moments or metrical attempts by Tyro, part 3rd, Canterbury, 1831.
Extents: 76 Leaves
Dates: 1831

A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 284
A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc., written about A.D. 1820-1830.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: written about A.D. 1820-1830

Concordance or index to the poems of John Keats by Charles Montague Neale

 Collection
Concordance or index to the poems of John Keats by Charles Montague Neale
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: Written about 1913 by C. M. Neale

Copies of a few English poems

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 18
Copies of a few English poems
Extents: 42 pages
Dates: Written in the second half of the 18th century

Copy of John Clare's The Village minstrel, and Other Poems (1821) with autograph manuscript 'Sonnet to T. Inskip, Shefford'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24097
Copy of John Clare's The Village minstrel, and Other Poems (1821) with autograph manuscript 'Sonnet to T. Inskip, Shefford' dated 16 Jul 1847 inscribed on front endleaf.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres
Dates: 1821-1847

Copy, on paper watermarked 1812, of S. T. Coleridge, 'Christabel', dated 'Grassmere Augt. 18th 1800' the last two figures apparently written over an erasure, an offset possibly reading '1818'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 26
Copy, on paper watermarked 1812, of S. T. Coleridge, 'Christabel', dated 'Grassmere Augt. 18th 1800' the last two figures apparently written over an erasure, an offset possibly reading '1818'.
Extents: 136 Leaves
Dates: 1800-1878

Dedication Copy of the ode by John Milton Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. d. 77
Dedication Copy of the ode by John Milton Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 23 Jan. 1646/7

Drafts and copies of poems by Octavia Walsh, some printed in Poems upon divine and moral subjects. By Dr. Patrick . .. and other ... hands (London, 1719)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 31
Drafts and copies of poems by Octavia Walsh, some printed in Poems upon divine and moral subjects. By Dr. Patrick . .. and other ... hands (London, 1719).
Extents: 165 Leaves
Dates: 1719