Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 164 Collections and/or Records:
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Collection of poetry, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.43
Scope and Contents
Contains: (a) 'Come poetry, and with you bring along…' (song) by Abraham Cowley; (b) 'The history of Æneas and Dido's love, translated out of ye fourth booke of Virgill, by Mr Sydny Godolphin', beginning 'Meanwhile the queene fanning a secret fire…'; '(c) 'Dr Donne's Farewell to the world', beginning 'Farewell you gilded follyes, pleasing troubles ...' (printed in Walton's 'Compleat angler', 1653, and elsewhere, but not now attributed to Donne; Herbert Grierson, 1912, called the present...
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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Collection of songs, poems and epitaphs compiled by a Norfolk clergymen
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.79
Scope and Contents
Items inlcude: Thomas Randolph (attrib.) 'The townsmen's petition of Cambridge', 'On the fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge', 'Oratio Praevaricatoria', (with Ben Jonson), 'Discontented Soliloquy', 'An Answer to Mr Ben Jonson's Ode'; Sir Henry Wotton, 'On his Mistress, the queen of Bohemia'; Anon., 'Thinkest thou Kate to put me down'; Hamon L'Estrange (attrib.), 'The liberty and requiem of an imprisoned Royalist'; Creswell, 'Dame Learning of late is fled the land'; Symonds, 'A pastoral...
Dates:
1661 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Collection of tracts, Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.83
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘A short historical account of the Cistercian order, and the several offices and performances of such persons as profess the monastical state in the same’, by ‘René Guybert, formerly a professed monk in the above-said Cistercian order’; (2) ‘The oration of Sr Roberte Bell for succession; (3) Extracts from various manuscripts concerning the Cathedral church at Norwich; (4) Extracts from various manuscripts relating to Norwich; (5) (a) names of the scholars elected from Westminster School...
Dates:
Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Collection of Verse
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6343
Scope and Contents
Verses copied from the St James' evening post, the Grub Street journal, and other publications, including items by William Walsh, Sir C.H. Williams, T. Tickell, Stevenson, Bavius, David Garrick, C. Pitt, and Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 32 folios. On fo. i is a woodcut entitled 'The patient husband&scolding Wife', with verses below. On fos 27v and 28r is a list of contents.
Dates:
1751 (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
Collections on Jonathan Swift
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7788
Scope and Contents
Box 1. Photocopies and communications regarding Swift's poems and correspondence, including material owned by Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the British Museum Box 2. Photocopies and communications regarding Swift's correspondence, including material owned by the National Library of Scotland, Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the Earl of Harrowby, Wellesley College Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, Haverford College Library, the...
Dates:
1667-1964 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Commonplace Book of Religious Poetry
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6664
Scope and Contents
Commonplace collection containing religious poetry, copies of letters, cuttings, etc., including material relating to Byron and Napoleon, written in several hands, 269 folios. There is an index of contents on pp. iv-xi.
Dates:
1750-1830 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Copies of documents, chiefly historical, concerning George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, c. 1650
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.13
Scope and Contents
By the original paging 66 pages appear to have been lost, unless 36 out of order at the end were some of these. Other pages have been torn out. They do not appear to have been missing when the manuscript was catalogued for John Moore. Contents: (1) ‘The king’s [Charles I] message to parliament’; (2) ‘The answer of the howse of commons, 14th March 1625’; (3) ‘The king’s majestie’s replie to the said answer of the howse of commons made to them the 15 of March, 1625; (4) speeches of the king...
Dates:
c. 1650
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Fonds
Correspondence of Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk, and related items
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10382
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk, together with poems, verse dialogues, newspaper cuttings, photographs and related items. The letters date between 1953 and 1967. They are from Sassoon, and addressed from Heytesbury, unless otherwise stated. A few were addressed jointly to Dennis and Diana Silk. There are three letters from Dennis Silk to Sassoon, and letters from a few other correspondents are included as enclosures.
Dates:
1918-2012 (bulk 1953-1967)
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
D. J. Enright papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10303
Dates:
1920-2002
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to some boxes is restricted pending appraisal for sensitive information relating to living individuals. Enquiries should be made to the Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
David Chaloner, 'Hotel Zingo'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10024
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript of the poems in the book, with a title page dated 1979. The poems bear dates between 1972 and 1979. With two sheets of manuscript notes in the hand of John Welch, one apparently not relating to 'Hotel Zingo'.
Dates:
1979
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
David Chaloner, 'Today Backwards' and related papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10023
Scope and Contents
David Chaloner, 'Today Backwards', a gathering of typescript poems (some with manuscript anotations and deletions) published in Chaloner's book of that title, with title page and colophon, and with three further poems and 'Today Backward' (sic) printed in 'Vanessa Poetry Magazine', No. 2. The poems are dated in typescript with dates between 1972 and 1975. With a copy of 'Vanessa Poetry Magazine', No. 2; John James, 'Variations on "Today Backwards"', duplicated typescript; a pasted-up typeset...
Dates:
1969-1980
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
David Lewis: Poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6226-6227
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of poems, some printed. Includes 'The Knaresborough Election', a poem in two parts, in second volume.
Dates:
1798-1810
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
Denise Riley Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10087
Scope and Contents
Literary papers and correspondence of Denise Riley, consisting chiefly of letters and texts sent to Riley and a small selection of her (mainly earlier) poetry and critical/academic writing.
Dates:
1966-2015
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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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Desmond King-Hele: papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS King-Hele
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises professional correspondence with scientists, publishers and colleagues in Britain and abroad, papers relating to King-Hele's career at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), particularly research into satellite orbits and observations of the Sputnik satellites in the late 1950s, committee papers, draft versions of various publications, literary and scientific, and papers relating to lectures, conferences and events. The collection covers all of King-Hele's...
Dates:
1945 - 2003
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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Dialogue and poem, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.23
Scope and Contents
(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 ...'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Dutch poetry, 1562, 1599
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.49
Scope and Contents
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'.
Dates:
1562; 1599
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Fonds
E. Du Faur: Translations of Gui Du Faur's Quatrains de Pibrac
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5715
Scope and Contents
Typescript of Gui Du Faur's Quatrains de Pibrac, translated into English by E. Du Faur in 1907 from the original text, 78 folios: (fo. i) title page; (fo. i) 'Introductory and Historical', in English; (fo. viiv) the main text: each quatrain is transcribed in French from the printed text and is followed by its English translation; (fo. 64) 'L'Envoi' by the translator, in English; (fo. 66) notes and glossary. The versos are mostly blank. Inside the front cover is a letter from H. Montagu...
Dates:
1907-1913
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
Edmund Blunden: Two poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8523
Scope and Contents
'Fresh thought on an old poem' and 'To Diana', holograph poems signed by Edmund Blunden.
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6406-6409
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1810-1903
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 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
Fonds
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:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
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:
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Found in:
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
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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:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Eighteenth-Century Political and Other Papers
Fonds
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library