Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:
File
A Description of Scotland and other papers
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5124
Scope and Contents
'The description of Scotland and the King's entertainment there', 8 folios. It begins: 'First for the country I must confesse...', and ends: '...a tower as Edenborough in Lowsir Scotland'. The papers include: (fo. 2) [Thomas Scott], 'Vox Populi', 1620; (fo. 8v) verses, 'Ther's proclamation sent, Great Brittaine round about'.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Abraham Hartwell: Basilis Epistemon
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6861
Scope and Contents
'Basilis epistemon, sive de serenissimae D. Elisabethae Angliae Franciae et Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensatricis in Academiam Cantabrigiensem adventu Ao. 1564° Aug. 5° narratio Abraham Hartwelli Cantabrigiensis ad clarissimum virum D. Gualterum Haddonum Regiae Maiestati a supplicum libellis', 67 folios. The MS is a poem in elegiacs, containing over fifteen hundred lines: (fo. 3) dedication to Queen Elizabeth I; (fo. 5) preface addressed to Walter Haddon; (fo. 14) text. On fo. 2v is...
Dates:
1564
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Adair Welcker: 'Book of Generation' and other poems
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4306
Scope and Contents
A volume of 35 folios: (fo. 1) prefatory matter; (fo. 3) The Book of Generation; (fo. 6) To the Guest; (fo. 9) Kalleidon; (fo. 11) There is no Death; (fo. 15) The Convict's Complaint; (fo. 17) Alone-alone; (fo. 18) Bonds; (fo. 23) Astoria; (fo. 24) Visions of Night; (fo. 29) To the Woman; (fo. 32v) note. Printed extracts are attached to fos 2v and 33.
Dates:
1905
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Sub-Series
Alan Frederick Graham Ayling (m. 1919), 1921
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/1/Ayling
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Material relating to those with a surname beginning 'A'.
Dates:
1921
File
Album of Jacques de Marnix, 1579 - 1590
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.44
Scope and Contents
Contains sonnets, love songs, dedications, etc., chiefly in French. Many of the sonnets are addressed to Flemish ladies by the owner, and other pieces to himself by different scholars of his acquaintance. The dates are generally about 1580.
Dates:
1579 - 1590
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Album of sermons and verses
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5953
Scope and Contents
Album consisting mainly of a series of sermons and verses, 1 January 1809 - 10 November 1822, fos 34-121, the copy dating from c. 1850. There are also entries by (fo. 6) William M. Bunting, 16 June 183[ ]; (fo. 8) J. F[arrar], 24 April 1832; (fo. 9) Harriet Bunting; (fo. 10) John Hannah, 14 July 1832; (fo. 15) Frederick J. Bentley, 1858; and (fo. 31) Sophia M. Farrar, 24 April 1832. The writing is in various hands, and there are 133 folios in total. On fo. 4 is an elaborate title-page. Fos...
Dates:
1832-1858
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Alexander Campbell Yorke: Fowlmere Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6586-6587
Scope and Contents
Histroical notes on the parish of Fowlmere.
Dates:
1900-1921
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Alf Rosfelt: 'Imagery in Siegfried Sassoon's poetry', with related correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10385
Scope and Contents
A copy of a thesis written by Rosfelt at Stockholms universitet, duplicated typescript, 107 numbered pages + title page and four pages of contents, the title page inscribed by Rosfelt with a dedication to Sir Geoffrey Keynes. With: a card from Rosfelt to Keynes, Vällingby (Sweden), 10 April 1971, enclosing the thesis; a letter from Rosfelt to Keynes, Vällingby, 12 August 1971, concerning his interest in Sassoon; and a letter from Keynes to Dennis Silk, Brinkley, 23 April 1974, enclosing the...
Dates:
1971-1974
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Alfred 1st Lord Tennyson: The Princess
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6345-6346
Dates:
1847 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Alfred Edward Housman: Academic Notes and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6874-6902
Scope and Contents
Notes on classical literature.
Dates:
1900-1936 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Alfred Edward Housman: Letters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8534
Scope and Contents
Letters from A.E. Housman, including some to Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1928-1930, mainly concerning editions of Housman's poetry, with other letters and Housman-related material dating from 1906 to 1978. Items 1-11 (excluding 10A) are bound into a volume marked 'Letters from A.E.H.' on the spine and inscribed inside as belonging to Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Items 10A and 12-19 have been loosely inserted into the volume.
Dates:
1899-1978 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Alfred Edward Housman: Letters to Sir Sydney Castle Roberts (1887-1966) publisher, literary scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1948-1958
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7735
Scope and Contents
23 letters from Housman to S.C. Roberts, 22 Jan. 1926 - 17 Aug. 1933. There are also letters from Housman to R.S. Parry, no. 1, 17 Jan. 1926; from Mrs. Mildred B. Platt to S.C. Roberts, no.11, 17 June 1927; from A.F. Scholfield to Housman, no.13, 6 Aug. 1929; from Housman to G.R. Barnes, no. 23, 30 Aug. 1931, and a note by Housman, no. 20, 15 Dec. 1930. The letters of 1926-1927 concern the publication of J.A. Platt's Nine Plays, to which Housman wrote a preface. The other letters relate to...
Dates:
1926-1933
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Amy Levy: 'New Love, New Life', Undated; 1880s
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10496/3
Scope and Contents
Autograph manuscript of Levy's poem 'New Love, New Life', signed by Levy at the foot. The poem is sub-headed 'fr. the German', and there is a cancelled revision of the text of the poem in line 7. On the reverse of the sheet is written in pencil in a different hand 'Amy Levi', preceded by a series of Greek characters (Alpha, Omega, Delta, [apostrophe], Iota, Upsilon, all upper case).
Dates:
Undated; 1880s
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Ancient Scottish Poems, chiefly by William Dunbar and Sir Richard Maitland, 1622 - 1623
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.05.10
Scope and Contents
A Collection of Ancient Scottish Poems, chiefly by William Dunbar and Sir Richard Maitland, with a few by Kennedie, Stewart, and Hudsone: transcribed by John Reidpeth, apparently from the folio MS. of Sir R. Maitland in the Pepysian Library. On the first blank leaf is written, 'A me Joanne Reidpeth, septimo decembris inchoat. 1622. finis 1623’. Below this is 'Ex libris magistri Cristopheri Cokburne.' The contents are as follows; the titles being taken from the printed editions, except when...
Dates:
1622 - 1623
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Anne Stevenson and Angela Leighton: correspondence and related papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10354
Scope and Contents
Letters, cards, e-mail print-outs, poems, prose articles, miscellaneous printed and photocopied texts, and photographs, recording the friendship between the poets Anne Stevenson and Angela Leighton.
Dates:
1995-2020
Conditions Governing Access:
Users of the collection are required to complete a Researcher Undertaking Concerning Access under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to Archives Which Would Otherwise Be Closed.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Anne Stevenson: letters and cards to Lee Harwood
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10133
Scope and Contents
Three postcards, five greetings cards and a letter from Stevenson to Harwood. With word-processed and typed copies of three poems ('Who's joking with the photographer?', 'The inn' and 'The miracle of Camp 60') and a broadcast talk ('Overhearing T. S. Eliot') by Stevenson. Four of the greetings cards contain printed poems by Stevenson ('Carol of the birds', 'The unaccommodated', 'It looks so simple from a distance...' and 'Christmas comfort and the green man').
Dates:
1993-2007
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Anthony Barnett Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10056
Scope and Contents
Literary correspondence and papers concerning Barnett's work as a poet, critic, editor and publisher.
Dates:
1960-2010 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Anthony Dopping: Notebook
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.711
Scope and Contents
Notes mainly relating to Trinity College, Dublin. Including: disputations and speeches in Trinity College, 1662-83; speech on Irish rebellion, delivered 23 Oct. 1662; speech on death of Lewis Culme; miscellaneous verses, including those upon death of John Bradshaw and upon restoration of Charles II; 'The first beginning of the Presbiterians'; 'Directions to my parishoners July 28 1672'; 'Rules proposed to my selfe in the visiting my parishoners'; note of act for securing property to Anthony...
Dates:
1662-1683 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Arthur Joseph Munby: Susan, a poem of Degrees
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6974
Scope and Contents
Manuscript as prepared for the printer, 78 folios.
Dates:
1892
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Bell: The Papers of Julian Heward Bell
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JHB
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises essays, reviews, poetry, plays and correspondence written by Julian Bell, as well as secondary material; that is, correspondence, printed obituaries and news cuttings assembled since Julian Bell's death by Quentin Bell.
Dates:
1922 - 1997
Fonds
Bernard Barton: Letters and Related Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4506
Scope and Contents
Letters from Barton, mainly to Elizabeth Cowell, daughter of the Revd John Charlesworth, and wife of the scholar Edward Byles Cowell. There is an accompanying newspaper obituary of Barton.
Dates:
1834-1848
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Bola Brankovic: Two works
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8084-8085
Scope and Contents
Typescripts of a novel and a play.
Dates:
1959-1975
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cambridge Poetry Festival posters, 1975
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCIP CPF
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises 19 posters created to advertise the first Cambridge Poetry Festival in 1975. The posters were the idea of Richard Burns (also known as Richard Berengarten). Some of the artists were suggested by the poets themselves but most of them were students in the art school at the then Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University), where Richard was a lecturer.Each poster shows a poem and accompanying artwork. The list below gives (where...
Dates:
1975
Found in:
Girton College Archive
/
Institutional Papers
Fonds
Cambridge Poetry Society and the Association of Cambridge Poetry Societies: Records
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8681
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of two main groups of records. Items 1-126 are papers of the Cambridge Poetry Society, covering 1982-1984. Items 127-200 are papers collected by John Wells in the course of organising poetry events in Cambridge; from item 133 onwards these can be considered as papers of the Association of Cambridge Poetry Societies, covering the years 1984-1986. The papers of both organisations are financial and administrative in nature, and include correspondence, accounts,...
Dates:
1981-1989
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Cambridge student's commonplace book
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4138
Scope and Contents
Written in four hands after 1624, 71 folios: (fos 1-66) various ballads, verses, poems and epitaphs, some of which have been printed; (fo. 66v) 'London 1868'. Attached to a flyleaf at the end are 19th century notes by F.W. Cosens on the contents. The bookplate of F.W. Cosens also appears inside the front cover.
Dates:
1624 (after)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library