Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 181 Collections and/or Records:
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Plays and odes, Seventeenth century
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
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From the Collection:
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Poems, 1620 (Circa)
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:
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Poems, 1632 (Circa)
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:
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Poems, Late sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.23
Scope and Contents
English and Latin verses. The manuscript contains translations from Ovid, several Latin epitaphs on the Lady Catherine ‘nuper Duraventani comitis filiæ’, and other miscellaneous pieces, one of which is dated 1568. On the first page of the manuscript the following note occurs: ‘Anno ante nativitatem Christi quadringentisimo octogesimo septimo editum fuit castrum Norwici per regem Gurguntum [Caer-Gunt], ut patet in record’.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Poems, Early seventeenth century
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
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Poems, Early seventeenth century
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:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Poems and correspondence of Peter Robinson relating to his publications with the Many Press
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:
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Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
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:
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Poems by Thom Gunn
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Poems by Thom Gunn
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Poems, chiefly on Philip O'Reilly
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:
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Poems of John Donne
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 of John Donne
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Poems on Several Occasions
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:
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Poems on the parables
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4485
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Poems on the parables
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Poems (Phillips MS 9325)
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Poems (Phillips MS 9325)
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Poetical scrapbook, Early seventeenth century
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:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Records of the Marlowe Dramatic Society, 1907 - 1954
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 Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts, 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).
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'Rewards and Fairies'
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'Rewards and Fairies'
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Richard Farmer: Poetry
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4494
Scope and Contents
'Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy', with various poems and other juvenilia.
Dates:
1752
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Richard Farmer: Poetry
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Robert Brinsley Sheridan: Poetry
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8521
Scope and Contents
Two stanzas of ten lines each by Richard Sheridan, beginning 'When tis night and the midwatch is set', copied in the hand of William Blake on the back of part of the title-page of William Hayley's Ballads (1802). The lines are accompanied by a letter from P.J. Dobell to Geoffrey Keynes, 6 September 1938, and part of a letter to Keynes from an unknown correspondent, 28 January 1965. There is also an extract from a sale catalogue relating to the stanzas.
Dates:
1802 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Robert Hugh Benson: Poems
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7774
Dates:
circa 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Robert Potter: commonplace book
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10370
Scope and Contents
Includes poetry, prose extracts and literary ephemera.
Dates:
1754-1787
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Salmacis and Hermaphroditus: a Poem, by Francis Beaumont, c. 1600
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.13
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
c. 1600
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Samuel Colvil: Mock Poem or Whiggs Supplication
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6291
Scope and Contents
Copy. 48 folios. On fo. 1: 'I pray do me the favir of sending this book home if you dont like it for if you dont you most not fale reding it for it will plese you'.
Dates:
1750 (Circa. Copy of original fo c. 1681)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds — Box MS Add.9454: Box 1
Siegfried Sassoon: Letters to Glen Byam Shaw.
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 373 letters, notes and postcards from Sassoon to Byam Shaw, 1924-1966; some with additional enclosures. Many have inferred dates written in pencil [by Hart-Davis]. It includes a number of items received by Sassoon and perhaps then forwarded on to Shaw, e.g. MS Add.9454/86-90; these are listed chronologically where not clearly associated with a particular letter. Undated letters are numbered from /369-373. All letters are from Sassoon to Shaw unless otherwise...
Dates:
1924-1966
Conditions Governing Access:
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Solstice Archive
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10182
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the magazine Solstice, comprising work submitted and correspondence addressed to various editors.
Dates:
1961 - 1969
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
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Solstice Archive