Poetry
Subject
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Found in 191 Collections and/or Records:
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Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4193, 4195-4199, 4201-4204
Scope and Contents
Ethical and theological extracts and notes, lecture notes on 'mental philosophy,' welsh poetry and Michaelangelo's sonnets, both translated into English.
Dates:
1855-1856
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Edward Dent: Letters to him
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973
Scope and Contents
The collection consists almost exclusively of letters received by Dent between 1914 and 1918, and probably sorted and weeded by him subsequently. Several letters have been endorsed by Dent with identifications and comments, and he has also supplied biographical notes on most of the correspondents, although these are not always reliable. The letters reflect Dent's heavy involvement in the teaching of music in Cambridge during the First World War, and his work on the translation of hitherto...
Dates:
1950 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Edward Henry Blakeney and family: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8553
Scope and Contents
Comprises family correspondence of the Blakeney family, including letters of William Blakeney RN, who worked in the cartographic section of the Admiralty, Robert 'Bertie' Blakeney and Edward Henry Blakeney. The correspondence has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents, including some direct quotation. The catalogue has retained original historic language that may be offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. In order to reflect the original context of creation, such historic...
Dates:
1858-1975 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Edward Henry Blakeney: Poetry and Letters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7504-7509
Dates:
1885-1952
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Eighteenth-Century Poems
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6985
Scope and Contents
Poems, possibly in the hand of Haydock Morres, 339 folios. There are several corrections and additions in a second hand. There is an index of first lines at fo. i v, and a list of contents at fo. 1. The verso is blank throughout, apart from occasional notes and additions. The names George Stone, H.M. Morres, 'Honest Will. Burke', Hervey Morres, and Henrietta Percival appear in the MS., written in eighteenth-century hands. The name and stamp of Haydock Morres (fo. 309: of 'Derry Park') also...
Dates:
1700-1800 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Eighteenth-Century Political and Other Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6342
Scope and Contents
Political papers, verses, and other miscellaneous material, 160 folios. (Fo. 1) Three drafts of a memorandum or treatise on political and social reform in France, in French, dated 1780-1783, 1788 and September 1789. The concluding section and index are at fos 82-83. (Fo. 84) Copy of Capitulations agreed between England and Turkey, in Italian, 1675. (Fo. 94) Portions of a treatise on conchology, by an English writer, in Italian. (fo. 143) [Jacques] Montet, 'Observations sur les Castors qu'on...
Dates:
1750 (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).
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Eliot: The Papers of the Hayward Bequest of T.S. Eliot Material
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/HB
Scope and Contents
These papers comprise the typescripts, manuscripts, letters, and photographs given by T.S. Eliot to his friend, John Davy Hayward. They include drafts and proofs for some of T.S. Eliot's most famous works, including 'The Waste Land', 'Sweeney Agonistes', 'Four Quartets', 'Murder in the Cathedral', 'The Family Reunion' and 'The Cocktail Party'. Also included are the texts of several broadcasts and lectures, books from T.S. Eliot's library (many of them annotated), and over 350 photographs...
Dates:
1860 - 1988; 1860 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
HB/M/21 is reserved (not available to researchers) under the Data Protection Act.
File
“Enoch at 100”: chapters and transcripts, 2012 - 2014
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/7/28
Scope and Contents
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".
Dates:
2012 - 2014
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
Fonds
Frances Cornford and Margaret Irwin: correspondence, verse and related items
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10404
Scope and Contents
A copy of Frances Cornford, 'Collected Poems' (London: The Cresset Press, 1954), formerly belongong to Margaret Irwin ('Peg Monsell'), bearing a manuscript dedication by Cornford, 30 August 1954, and annotations in Irwin's hand. With related items, formerly found inserted, comprising three letters and a postcard from Cornford to Irwin, [1956]-[1957] and undated; 'P.S. to "Childhood", p.79 of Frances Cornford's "Collected Poems". Answer to last 2 lines' (verse), by Irwin, October 1956; letter...
Dates:
1954-1960 and undated
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Frances Cornford Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10410
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Cornford family, principally of the poet Frances Crofts Cornford. The collection includes letters to Francis Darwin from his second wife Ellen Wordsworth Crofts; letters to and from Frances Crofts Cornford and her husband Francis Macdonald Cornford; poems by Frances Crofts Cornford; notes on their children by Frances Crofts Cornford and Francis Macdonald Cornford; drafts of Frances Crofts Cornford's memoir of her husband; and correspondence of later generations of Cornford...
Dates:
1876-1992 and undated
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Francisco Xavier Alegre: 'Arte poetica de M. Boileau'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10424
Scope and Contents
A translation into Castilian verse by Francisco Xavier Alegre of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, 'L'Art Poétique', with a dedicatory epistle to a disciple of the translator.
Dates:
c. 1780
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Gabriel Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: Fluctuations
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8403
Scope and Contents
A photocopy of typescript poems, some of which are dated, 88 pages. There is a explanatory note at the beginning by Muhammad Asfour, Cambridge, 29 August 1982: 'The following poems are the major part of those written by Jabra in English. The text was prepared from the author's typescript, and incorporates all his alterations.'
Dates:
1982
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
George Crabbe: Notebooks, catalogue of his library and literary compositions
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4422-4426
Dates:
1812-1826
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
George Stanhope: Commonplace Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6339
Scope and Contents
Comprises various pieces of verse by Stanhope and contemporary writers and brief prose accounts of the lives of certain of the apostles and evangelists. Written during his residence at King's College.
Dates:
1680-1686 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Giacomo Leopardi: Letters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6210
Scope and Contents
Recipients are: Cancellieri (5), Capurro, Monsignor Zacchia, G. Melchiorri (8), A.F. Stella (5), Monaldo Leopardi (4), Paolina, Count Muzzarelli (2), Professor Giovanni Rosini (6), Count Valdrighi and Feliciano Niccolini. On fo. 36 is a sheet of notes in Leopardi's hand, headed Crestomatia I. On fos 51-52 are two autograph letters of Paolina Leopardi.
Dates:
1816-1834
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).
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Cambridge University Library
File
Giorgio Baffo: Poesia fisico-naturale
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6873
Scope and Contents
Written in the hand of P. C. Montchaussé, 212 folios.
Dates:
1792
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Giovanni Valleggio: Verse commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8500
Scope and Contents
'Varin Statu d'Amuri', a manuscript verse commonplace book, possibly 17th century.
Dates:
1650 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Glen Cavaliero Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10329
Scope and Contents
The collection includes: drafts and copies of poems, novels, short stories, articles, lectures and reviews; ‘Pleasure domes: a celebration’ (draft of a book about seaside piers); diaries, 1941, 1945–1946 and 1956–2016; personal documents (school reports, university, ordination etc.); notebooks of sermons; general correspondence files; and subject files, some including correspondence, relating to: Charles Williams; Arthur Machen and Tartarus Press; Phyllis Paul; Lois Lang-Sims; and ‘Kenneth...
Dates:
1930s-2010s
Conditions Governing Access:
With the exception of one file, the catalogued sections of the collection are open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to 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. 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
H. C. G. Moule, Bishop of Durham: correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9581
Dates:
1855-1920
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Henry Austin Driver and family: Letters and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8198
Scope and Contents
The collection covers much of H.A. Driver's life and career, although not all aspects and periods are fully illustrated. Other family members are featured, but the papers concerning them tend to be fragmentary and allusive. The collection comprises two boxes. The first holds 24 bundles of letters and papers and two travel journals, all relating to Driver or to members of his family (1-26). The greater part of the family correspondence dates from the second and third decades of the nineteenth...
Dates:
1759-1927
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).
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Cambridge University Library
File
Henry Stanford's collection of verses etc., c 1581-1613
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.75
Scope and Contents
Contains odes, ‘New Year’s gifts’, sonnets, epigrams, riddles, etc. The pieces which are dated range between the years 1581 and 1612. The following title occurs at f. 10: ‘Gulielmi Pagetti versiculi quos ex suo cerebro depromptos Aviæ [i. e. to his grandmother] officii et anni testificandi causa obtulit calendis Januarii A. D. 1584, annos nato 12 dies 14’. The William Paget thus referred to was in all probability the 4th baron of the name, who died in 1629. Other traces of him are...
Dates:
c 1581-1613
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
Henry Taylor and family: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7901-7908
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of manuscript notebooks, correspondence, and business and family papers of Henry Taylor, with additional papers relating to the family of his wife Christian (née Fox). The correspondence includes letters sent between Taylor and members of his family (7901/1 and 7901/2). This is supported by correspondence with those outside the immediate family circle. There are letters from Henry Taylor to Mrs. Ann Jebb, who wrote during the 1770s under the pseudonym of 'Priscilla',...
Dates:
1722-1900
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).
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Cambridge University Library
File
Historical relation / miscellaneous poetry, Seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.14
Scope and Contents
(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.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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File
Irish poems and tales
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4436
Scope and Contents
Compiled by Patrick Lamb, with additions by Eugene Duffy and James O'Donovan.
Dates:
1825-1831 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
J. H. Prynne Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10144
Scope and Contents
The collection principally consists of Prynne's literary papers and correspondence, together with documents relating to his career as an academic.
Dates:
1936 - 2019
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to some files is restricted for reasons of confidentiality or in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The restictions are not noted in this online catalogue, and those planning to consult the collection are strongly advised to contact the Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts well in advance of their visit to establish the accessibility of the files in which they are interested.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library