Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 164 Collections and/or Records:
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
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Francisco Xavier Alegre: 'Arte poetica de M. Boileau'
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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
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Gabriel Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: Fluctuations
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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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
George Stanhope: Commonplace Book
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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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Giacomo Leopardi: Letters
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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).
Found in:
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:
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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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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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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).
Found in:
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).
Found in:
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).
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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).
Found in:
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:
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).
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).
Found in:
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
Fonds
James Reynolds Withers papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10313
Scope and Contents
Literary papers and correspondence of Withers, including poems; an autobiographical memoir; correspondence; miscellaneous manuscript and printed items; papers of his friend and posthumous editor Janet E. Aspland photographic prints; and paintings.
Dates:
1840s-1910s
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
Jane West: Extracts from tour journals chronicling travels in Wales and Ireland
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.738
Scope and Contents
Includes three poems. Early nineteenth-century hand (paper watermarked 1813), apparently not autograph. The poems are 'To Glen Luce', 'To Mrs Isted on her return from Ireland in 1807', and 'A Farewell to Leamington, 1833'. Bookplate of Samuel Sandars inside front cover.
Dates:
1813 (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
Jeremy Hilton: literary papers and correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10154
Scope and Contents
The collection includes drafts and versions of poetry and prose by Hilton; notebooks, including juvenilia; papers relating to his time as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge; general literary corrrespondence; and printed material.
Dates:
1950s-2000s
Conditions Governing Access:
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
John Brande Trend: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7673
Scope and Contents
Drafts of essays, translations of poetry, lectures and letters to Trend. Most of the material dates from the last decade of Trend's life. A. Letters to Trend, with a few drafts or copies of replies, 1930-1955, 82 items. B. Typescripts of lectures to undergraduates on 'Spain in the 18th and 19th centuries'. 9 envelopes. C-N. Files of material for intended publications, including MS and typescript drafts, translations, various notes and collectanea, corrected proofs, and a few letters to...
Dates:
1930-1955 (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
John Daniel Cotton: Poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5711
Scope and Contents
Poems transcribed in two 18th century hands, 16 folios. The works are 'Poverty', 'A pastoral essay', 'Locus apud inferos Virginibus vetulis secretos', 'Templum Hymenaei' and 'Fancy bright and winged Maid'. Outside the front cover: 'Dr Grainger', in an 18th century hand, possibly referring to James Grainger.
Dates:
1748-1750 (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
John Donne and William Strode: Poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8470
Scope and Contents
A manuscript collection of poems mainly by John Donne and William Strode. On the flyleaf are the signatures of Edward Hyde (1607-1659) and Robert Walker. The volume has the bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Many of the pages are unused.
Dates:
1635 (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
John Donne: Poems and leaves
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8466-8468
Scope and Contents
Two leaves in Latin and two volumes in English
Dates:
c 1620-1633
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
John James Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10019
Scope and Contents
Literary papers and correspondence of the poet John James. Includes texts of poetry and prose by James; files relating to particular subjects; correspondence; and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1960s onwards, although there is some juvenilia dating from the 1940s.
Dates:
1940s-2018
Conditions Governing Access:
Some files are closed for reasons of confidentiality. The collection is otherwise 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