Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 200 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
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
File
'Rhythmic Rhymes' by Reginald Le May, undated, post-3 June 1953
File
Reference Code: GBR/1058/MAY/2/5
Scope and Contents
1 file of typescript poetry titled 'Rhythmic Rhymes' by Reginal Le May, with occasional manuscript notes and corrections. The typescript appears in a draft state with duplicate poems and inconsistent page numbering. Included is the original file cover indicating revised and altered contents.
Dates:
undated, post-3 June 1953
File
Richard Farmer: Poetry
File
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:
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
Robert Brinsley Sheridan: Poetry
Fonds
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:
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
Robert Hugh Benson: Poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7774
Dates:
circa 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
Fonds
Robert Potter: commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10370
Scope and Contents
Includes poetry, prose extracts and literary ephemera.
Dates:
1754-1787
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ruth Padel Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10444
Scope and Contents
Literary and academic papers. The collection contains material in the following categories:Poetry: includes files marked ‘Early Poems / Poems 1967-1985 / (Alibi)’, ‘Poems 1975-1992 / TLS Alibi, Summer Snow, Angel’ and ‘Poems 1990-2002’; and material relating to Padel’s collections ‘Angel’, ‘Rembrandt Would Have Loved You’, ‘Voodoo Shop’, ‘The Soho Leopard’, ‘Darwin – A Life in Poems’, ‘The Mara Crossing’, ‘Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth’, ‘Tidings – A Christmas Journey’,...
Dates:
1950s-2010s
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
File
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus: a Poem, by Francis Beaumont, early seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.13
Scope and Contents
A copy of the 1602 print edition.
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).
File
Samuel Colvil: Mock Poem or Whiggs Supplication
File
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:
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
Siegfried Sassoon: Letters to Glen Byam Shaw.
Fonds
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:
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
Sir Thomas Knyvett: verses, c 1568
File
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:
c 1568
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
Solstice Archive
Fonds
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
File
Sonnets, 1585
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.01.11
Scope and Contents
Two books of Italian sonnets by various authors, bound in one volume, with introductory matter. They are addressed to 'Sigor. Capno. Thommaso Sassetti'. The collector, 'Lattantio Valori Fiorentino', dates 'di casa sua in Londra il primo giorno di Maggio M.D.LXXXV'. A list of authors is prefixed to each volume.
Dates:
1585
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
Spectacular Diseases Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10238
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, texts and related matreials, principally concerning publications under the Spectacular Diseases imprint. The collection includes letters from authors, translators and printers, and poetry and prose submitted and typeset for publication.
Dates:
1986-2015
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Standish Hayes O'Grady: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6472-6568
Scope and Contents
Poems, songs, verse, stories, historical notes, mainly concerning Ireland and of Irish origin.
Dates:
1701-1900 (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
Stella Benson: Diaries and Poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6762-6803
Scope and Contents
Diaries, poems and juvenilia
Dates:
1900-1933 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Originals unavailable. Microfilm copy to be used.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Stephen Romer Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10419
Scope and Contents
Includes: drafts and versions of poems, some unpublished, 1973-2016, some bearing comments by Geoffrey Hill, and including drafts of poems for ‘Idols’ (1986) and 'Set Thy Love in Order' (2017); notebook docketed ‘SR / Journal / MSS Poems 1981 - / Commonplace book’; correspondence, including letters to and from Michael Schmidt, and copies of letters from Romer; early reviews, 1978-81; Cambridge Part 2 English tripos Long Essay; papers relating to ‘Modern Poetry in Translation’, including...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1973-2016
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Supplement to the 'Faery Queene', 1635
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.53
Scope and Contents
'A supplement of the Faery Queene, in three bookes, wherein are allegorically described affaires both military and civill of these times', beginning ('Seventh book', canto I stanza 1) 'Aurora still bewailing Memnon's fate ...', and continuing to stanza 47 of canto 12 in the ninth book. There are numerous corrections here and there, and whole stanzas erased. On the title page is the following entry by the same hand: 'This was finished anno dom. 1635'. The preface embodies part of Spenser's...
Dates:
1635
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
Terence Tiller: Notes for a myth and other poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10239
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and typescript drafts and versions of poems in Tiller's 1968 Chatto and Windus (Hogarth Press) book ' Notes for a myth and other poems', some bearing notes to the printer. With a manila folder bearing the title of the book.
Dates:
c. 1968
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
The Cambridge Election
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.624
Scope and Contents
An anonymous set of verses in seven stanzas. Fo. 1: 'Samuel Sandars'.
Dates:
1700 (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