Poetry
Subject
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Found in 194 Collections and/or Records:
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Personal Papers of Gladys Williams, 1904 - 2013
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Williams
Scope and Contents
The papers of Gladys Williams consist chiefly of manuscripts of some of her written work (published and unpublished), together with a small quantity of personal and biographical items.
Dates:
1904 - 2013
Found in:
Girton College Archive
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Personal Papers
Fonds
Personal Papers of Jane Catherine Gamble, 1783 - 1884
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Gamble
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise Jane Gamble's own writings, including her literary compositions; her business papers and related correspondence and also a collection of letters, mementoes and artefacts preserved by her.
Dates:
1783 - 1884
Found in:
Girton College Archive
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Personal Papers
Fonds
Personal Papers of Joyce Penny, 1948 - 1985
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Penny
Dates:
1948 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Girton College Archive
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Personal Papers
Fonds
Personal Papers of Kathleen Mary Peace, 1910 - 1971
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Peace
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise a diverse collection of notes and writings on philosophy, religion and ethics, from 1936-48, with critical responses from Helen Wodehouse; verses; college papers; letters; leaflets, and other miscellaneous ephemera and artefacts.
Dates:
1910 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Girton College Archive
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Personal Papers
Fonds
Peter Bayley: The Cambriad
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3435
Scope and Contents
A poem in 12 books. In English, with Welsh quotations heading each book. Occasional marginal notes in red ink. Apparently unprinted.
Dates:
1820 (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
Peter Carpenter Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10468
Scope and Contents
Literary papers of Peter Carpenter.
Dates:
1978-2006 and undated
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Peter Hughes Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10176
Dates:
2000 - 2015
Conditions Governing Access:
Some of the correspondence files are restricted in accordance with the Data Protection Act. All 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. With this proviso, 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
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Peter Larkin: Literary correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10432
Scope and Contents
The principal topics of the letters are responses to Larkin's poetry, or to material by the correspondents or others published by Prest Roots Press.
Dates:
1985-2018
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (2018) apply to access. With this prociso, 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
Plays and odes, Seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.06.35
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Fratrum concordia sœua, sive Zeno tragœdia, R. P. I. S. anno 1631 acta’, beginning ‘Protasis, scen. prim.’, ‘Compesce murmur æris infausti tuba ...’; (2) ‘Ludit in humanis Divina potentia rebus: ultio divina, sive Leo Armenus, tragœdia’, beginning ‘Act. prim. scen. prim.’, ‘Auguste mundi rector Eoi Leo ...’; (3) short poems: (a) ‘Deliberatio Francisci Borgiæ de mundo linquendo’; (b) ‘Votum Telluris ad nascentem Christum’; (c) ‘Ad angelos ut S. Io. Baptistam paruulum in eremo inuisant’;...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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).
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Poems, 1620 (Circa)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8467
Scope and Contents
Manuscript poems in English, c. 1620, with an index. The poems were possibly written by the amanuensis of Henry Percy, 9th Duke of Northumberland (1564-1632), Donne's friend and probably the former owner of the volume.
Dates:
1620 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Poems, 1632 (Circa)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8468
Scope and Contents
Manuscript poems in English with the signature on the flyleaf, 'Nar. Luttrell His Book 1680'. The volume includes Donne's epitaph, a poem addressed to him by his son, and other pieces. It is accompanied by related letters addressed to Geoffrey Keynes, c. 1950-1970.
Dates:
1632 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Poems, Early seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.05
Scope and Contents
Twenty-one short poems on subjects chiefly connected with the life of Christ. On a flyleaf at the end is written 'Lent to Sir Henry Sidney 100£ the 11 of May, 1612'. Also Ἰωάννης Κνύεττος [i.e. Knyvett] τὁν βίβλον κρατεῖ.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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).
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Poems, c 1642-1675
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.08
Scope and Contents
Short poems on various subjects. On f. 16 occurs the signature 'By me, A. Henley'. At the end of the volume are six pages of prose, with the title 'Notæ selectæ ex epistolis monsieur de Balzac quibusdam amicis'. See also MSS Dd.14.07 and Dd.14.17.
Dates:
c 1642-1675
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).
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Poems, early seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.04.21
Scope and Contents
Begins 'The stronger is the forte which forreyne foes assayle ...'. With a prologue.
Dates:
early seventeenth century
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
Poems and correspondence of Peter Robinson relating to his publications with the Many Press
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10034
Scope and Contents
Includes: ‘Going Out to Vote’: marked-up photocopied typescript of the poem, pasted-up typeset copy of the inner pages, layout sheet in John Welch’s hand, and copy number 5 of the printed broadsheet, signed by Robinson; ‘Overdrawn Account’: marked-up photocopied typescript of the poems, paste-up of a rejected cover design, undated letter to Welch from ‘Judy’ (typesetter), printed flyer, a copy of the book, and ‘Overdrawn Account, by Peter Robinson: A Balance-Sheet’ (manuscript review of the...
Dates:
1977-1985
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
Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10193
Scope and Contents
Notebook comprising fair copies, with some revisions, of poems by Siegfried Sassoon, together with illustrations and decorations. Some of the poems bear the date of their composition. Sassoon presented the notebook to Lady Ottoline Morrell in January 1917 and made additions to it in subsequent years. Contents:Preliminary matter:• [1r]. ‘To victory’ (newspaper cutting from The Times, 15 Jan. 1916)
• [1v]. Feather
• [2r]. Title page
• [2v]. ‘Edition’ statement and...
Dates:
1916-[1930s]
Conditions Governing Access:
The volume 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
Poems by Thom Gunn
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10105
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and typescript poems by Gunn, some bearing corrections, annotations or notes, and some with notes on adhesive slips. They are mostly undated. The poems are: “My darling, you are twenty two …” (MS, 1 folio, bearing a marginal query)‘Tamer and Hawk’ (MS, 1 folio)‘Captain in Time of Peace’ (MS, 1 folio)‘Captain in Time of Peace’, another version (MS, 1 folio)‘Without a Counterpart’ (MS, 1 folio)‘Contemplative and Active’ (TS...
Dates:
1954-1988 and undated (1950s-1990s?)
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
Poems, chiefly on Philip O'Reilly
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3082
Scope and Contents
Some notes are in the hand of W. B. Kane of Edmund House, Cambridge.
Dates:
1400-1736 (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
Poems of John Donne
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5778
Scope and Contents
A collection of poems of John Donne. Also includes other poems by Francis Bacon, Thomas Carew, Francis Beaumont and Sir Henry Wotton transcribed at a similar date. The manuscript is sometimes referred to as the 'Cambridge Balam' manuscript.
Dates:
1630 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
The volume 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
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Poems on Several Occasions
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6374
Scope and Contents
106 folios. The volume is probably the verse commonplace book of a Cambridge student. The authorship of the poems is not stated. Pages 2-6 and 118-206 are blank. There is a list of contents at pp. 207-209.
Dates:
1727
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
Poems on the parables
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4485
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Poems on the Underground' archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10463
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to 'Poems on the Underground' and related publications and activities, collected by Judith Chernaik, a co-founder of the programme. The papers include correspondence, project files, subject files, and printed items, including copies of a selection of posters.
Dates:
1984-2023
Conditions Governing Access:
With the exception of one file closed until 1 January 2067 under the terms of the Data Protection Act (1998), the collection is 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
Poems (Phillips MS 9325)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8471
Scope and Contents
Seventy-eight poems by Henry King, written in a contemporary hand. The volume was probably compiled under the author's supervision. It includes the bookplate of Sir J.A. Brooke. There is an accompanying letter from Margaret Crum, 27 March 1953, describing the collection.
Dates:
1648 (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
Records of the Marlowe Dramatic Society, 1907 - 1954
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.78
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.
Dates:
1907 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
'Rewards and Fairies'
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6850
Scope and Contents
The complete autograph MS of 'Rewards and Fairies', including the poems 'The Road through the Woods' and 'If', 118 folios. On the flyleaf: 'Presented to Cambridge University Library by The Author 1926 Rudyard Kipling'. With letters from Kipling to A. F. Scholfield (University Librarian), Burwash, 30 June 1926, and Kipling's secretary D. Gardner-Smith to Scholfield, Burwash, 21 July 1926; and with an envelope mis-addressed by Kipling to Scholfield as 'Bodley's Librarian' at 'The Bodleian...
Dates:
1910 (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