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Poetry

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 191 Collections and/or Records:

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Translation by E.B. Cowell of Ellis Wynne's Gwelidigaethan y Bardd Cwsg ('Visions of the sleeping Bard')

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4225
Dates: 1873 (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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Translation of the poems of Llynwarch Owain Gwalchmai by Llynwarch O. Reynolds

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4200
Scope and Contents

Includes: (fo. i) title-page; (fo. iv) note on Gwalchmai's descent; (fo. ii) list of contents; (fo. 1) note on the text; (fo. 3) text of the translation, with footnotes; (fo. 46) index of names. Attached to fo. ii is a letter from Reynolds to E.B. Cowell, 2 October 1882.

Dates: 1882
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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Ursula Vaughan Williams: Poems and translations, nd [20th century]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/116-124
Scope and Contents

Comprises:
- Nocturne. Jean Moreas.
- By the water. Variation on a theme by Alexander Blok.
- Cette fille est morte …
- Sagesse I xxl.
- Cold. From a poem by Nekrassov.
- Comme on voit sur la branche au mois de mai la rose …
- Puis qu’elle est tout hyver, toute la même glace …
- Vous estes dejà vieille, et je le suis aussi …
- Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to 'Jean', nd

Dates: nd [20th century]
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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Waley: The Papers of Arthur David Waley

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/ADW
Scope and Contents

This collection contains documents written by Arthur Waley, and papers relating to him. It includes memoirs by members of his family, correspondence, photographs, off-prints both by and about him, and newspaper cuttings.

Dates: 1917 - 2001
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Werner Milch: Thesis on Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7975
Scope and Contents English and German versions of a thesis entitled 'Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the philosophical, theological and political background of his poetical work', which was submitted for a Ph.D. to the University of London in 1945. The English version is a 129-page typescript, with an index, bibliography and manuscript annotations. Attached to the front cover is a note by Dr W. Rose, L.S.E., and a letter from Edna Purdie to Dr Rose, 15 May 1945, regarding the thesis. The German version is a 126-page...
Dates: 1945 (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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Wilcockson: the papers of Colin George Wilcockson

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/WIC
Scope and Contents

The collection primarily consists of correspondence sent to Colin Wilcockson by the poet and artist David Jones and a small volume of poetry. There is also a series of tributes to Wilcockson gathered together posthumously.

Dates: 1956-01-03 - 2023-05-02
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William Blake: poem

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8522
Scope and Contents

'When Klopstock England defied', a poem transcribed by A.C. Swinburne during the nineteenth century from p. 5 of the Rossetti MS of William Blake.

Dates: 1850 (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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William Blake: two poems

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8457
Scope and Contents

Copies of 'The shepherd' and 'The echoing green' by Edward Johnston.

Dates: 1905 (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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William Cookson: correspondence and papers relating to items published in ‘Agenda’, and other literary papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10196
Scope and Contents MS Add. 10196/1 comprises correspondence, typescripts and galley proofs corrected by Cookson and poets, relating to poems, letters and reviews published in ‘Agenda’ during the period 1984-87. These include the poetry of Anne Beresford, Edward Lowbury, Michael Hamburger, Peter Redgrove, C. H. Sisson and Charles Tomlinson. MS Add.10196/2 contains a miscellaneous collection of signed autograph letters and literary papers, covering the period 1957-2009, including a typescript and corrected...
Dates: 1957-2009
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).
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William Cowper: Notes on Dreams

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6755
Scope and Contents

Notes on dreams experienced and voices heard, 15 Nov. 1797 - 23 Apr. 1799, in the hand of John Johnson of East Dereham, 108 folios. Fos 52-106 and the verso throughout are blank.

Dates: 1797-1799
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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William Morris: The Lovers of Gudrun

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6162
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A calligraphic copy by William Graily Hewitt of William Morris's The lovers of Gudrun, commissioned by Charles Fairfax Murray, 1908-1909.

Dates: 1909
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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William Robertson Smith: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7476
Scope and Contents Comprises: lectures on various subjects including Old Testament poetry, Old Testament liturgy and general Biblical subjects; notebooks on the Old Testament and other Biblical subjects, and Arabic and Semitic language notes; sermons arranged in canonical order; papers relating to William Robertson Smith's libel trial for alleged heresies and errors; memoranda, including early family correspondence and accounts of family members; assorted newscuttings, rough notes and a small number of...
Dates: 1860-1894 (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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(William) Sidney Walker: Correspondence, miscellaneous verses and other papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5942
Scope and Contents The letters which form the bulk of the material catalogued here, were written by Sidney Walker over a quarter of a century to several female relations: principally, his mother (who after her husband's death lived at various addresses in London and its suburbs); his mother's sister Maria, who had married William Walker, a solicitor at Thirsk in the North Riding (and probably a brother or cousin of Sidney's father); and his unmarried cousin Margaret, a daughter of Maria Walker. The letters,...
Dates: 1809-1839
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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William Smyth: Horae Lyricae

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4455
Scope and Contents

Drafts of various poems and songs.

Dates: 1786-1830
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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William Williams: Welsh Compositions

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6172
Scope and Contents

Compositions in Welsh by William Williams, with a sermon or religious text found in the church of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire.

Dates: 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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Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 'Elijah'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10395
Scope and Contents

Praed's Seatonian Prize poem for 1830, written in his hand on four bifolia and sewn into a cover-sheet. There are textual variations from the published version of the poem.

Dates: c. 1830