Poetry
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
A Collection of Ancient Scottish Poems, chiefly by William Dunbar and Sir Richard Maitland, 1623
A poem on Nicandro and Lucilla, Seventeenth century
Begins 'The stronger is the forte which forreyne foes assayle ...'. With a prologue.
Alan Frederick Graham Ayling (m. 1919), 1921
Material relating to those with a surname beginning 'A'.
Album, Late sixteenth century
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.
Cambridge Poetry Festival posters, 1975
Collection of poetry, Seventeenth century
Collection of tracts, Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
College business, 19731017
There is to be a meeting of the Old Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Antiquarian Society on Castle Hill, to which Geoffrey Martin and F. Stubbings are invited. Gorley Putt and Peck are writing a ballad called 'The Bursar Drives an Air-Conditioned Car'. Weiss-Fuch is to be in college that evening and Professor Robert Burns Woodward is to be a Fellow.
Copies of documents, chiefly historical, concerning George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, c. 1650
Copy of “A Shame to Miss 3”, 2002
Selection of poetry for young adults picked by the Children's Laureate Anne Fine, including JEP’s “The Net”.
Correspondence of Powell Literary Trustees, 2008 - 2009
Includes: a copy of a recording of JEP's interview with Bernard Braden, given shortly after the Birmingham speech ["Rivers of Blood"], 1968, but never used; copies of a collection of Greek prose exercises sent by JEP to A F Wells, 1937; copies of a set of 31 poems written by JEP for [Margaret] Pamela Powell for each of their wedding anniversaries.
Dialogue and poem, Seventeenth century
(1) 'A conference held in the castell of Ste Angelo by the pope, the emperor and the king of Spaine', beginning (the pope being the speaker) 'Welcome dear sonne unto our courte of Rome'. The work was edited, with prefatory matter of his own, by John Taylor the water poet in 1631, under the title 'The suddaine turne of fortune's wheele'; (2) 'David's sins, 1 Sam. xxi', a poem, beginning 'In Juda and Jerusalem ...'.
Dutch poetry, 1562, 1599
The first part consists of a number of rough pictorial capitals in the order of the alphabet, with five or six lines of letterpress appended to each. The title page is embellished. The second part is entitled 'Chansons, anno MCCCCC,XCIX'; among others are 'Nien liedeken', relating to 'Wilhelmus van Nassau'.
“Enoch at 100”: chapters and transcripts, 2012 - 2014
Drafts of contributions to a published collection of essays on JEP to mark the centenary of his birth, edited by Lord Howard of Rising. Includes "Enoch Powell as a Classicist" by Margaret Mountford, "A Personal Recollection" by Anne Robinson, and the texts of JEP's poems "An ode on the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty King George V", "Hymn", "1934: Antistrophe", "The Swallows" and "1934: Strophe".
Henry Stanford's collection of verses etc., c 1581-1613
Historical relation / miscellaneous poetry, Seventeenth century
(1) ‘A relation of divers occurrenses as they happened about the beginninge of kinge James his reign, composed by an unknown author’ (see MS Dd.03.86, no. 4); (2) miscellaneous English poetry, comprising sonnets, elegies, satires, etc; the only mark of authorship is at the foot of an elegy (f. 65): ‘Sir Edwarde Harbort on the prince’, alluding perhaps to Prince Henry, who died 6 November 1612.
John Riley: three poems, Mid twentieth century
Typescript copies (two top copies, one carbon copy) of three poems by John Riley: 'A Conversation', 'Two Photographs' and 'A Picture: an Historical Perspective'. With a photocopy of a photograph of Pamela Collins, and a note by Rosemary Chorley regarding Pamela Collins and John Riley, written on a printout of Riley's Wikipedia entry.
La boutique doree des amateurs de la poesie, 1650
‘La boutique doree des amateurs de la poesie, contenue en LXXIV exemples de la vie humaine avec beaucoup de sentences morales faites par quartrains, aussi plusieurs distiques si bien chrestiens que mouraux, par T. I., Haarlem, anno 1650’. The first piece ‘de la vie humaine’ is entitled ‘Comparaison du grand et du petit monde’, and begins ‘Si nous considerons ceste machine ronde ...’.
L’ambassadeur vert envoye au roy par les mignons et beaulx chevalliers verds des Indes, Sixteenth century
A politico-religious poem, beginning 'Lorsque Phebus par voyes non obscures ...'.
Leaves signed by John Donne, 1623-1633
1. A leaf of eight lines, with an accompanying transcription. The leaf is signed 'Joannes Donne: ibidem Decanus. Sept. 27. 1623', and relates to John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.
2. A leaf from the Album Amicorum of Michael Corvinus. There is writing on the reverse in another hand, signed 'Johannes Donne 5 Octobr. 1633'. This relates to a different John Donne, possibly the Dean of Sion College. There are three accompanying pieces of related correspondence, 1939 and 1953.
Letter of Patrick Lawlor to Hector Bolitho, 1 Oct. 1957
Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library. Together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.
Letters from Walter de la Mare and Siegfried Sassoon to Gwen Raverat, 1935-1956
(1)-(2): Two letters from de la Mare, autograph and typescript signed, 30 December 1935 and 7 September 1942. (3)-(7): Five letters from Sassoon, autograph, 11 June 1938, 29 June 1954, 21 June 1955, 30 June 1956 and 18 July 1956.
Livre de Chinière a l'usage de P. Maleré de Jauche en Syntaxe, 1808
The vellum binding is taken from a treatise of c. 1200, in which occurs the rubricated heading 'De cognatione spirituali'.
Miscellaneous literary and political writings, Seventeenth century
(1) ‘The earle of Leicester his common wealth’, by Robert Parsons; (2) ‘A short veiw of K. Henry the third his raigne, written by Sir Robt. Cotton 1624’; (3) ‘Bosworth feild: by J. B.’, a poem by Sir John Beaumont, bart., published 1629; (4) ‘A speach or argument made in the commons house of parliament at a generall committye of the whole house concerninge the new impositions uppon marchandize lately imposed wthout assent of p’iamt, and the right and lawfullness thereof. Ano 8 J. R.’