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Total number of records: 4966

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Books and printed items3646
Archives712
Indexes592
People and organisations13
Textiles3

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Brotherton Collection3136
English Literature2110
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse585
Herbert Read Collection132
Leeds Poetry118
Liddle Collection92
Letters Database74
Quaker Collection64
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture63
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society50

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english poetry323
world war, 1914-191868
english literature68
poetry63
culture52
english language - dialects43
verse satire, english41
folk music36
english language34
letters31

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Great Britain122
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Rome10
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Italy8
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People and organisationsCount
Anonymous153
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)88
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)87
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)57
Dryden, John (1631-1700)56
Horace47
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)35
Dryden, John32
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)30
Pope, Alexander30

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From 150056
From 1600893
From 17001587
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From 19001259
From 200015

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Archive Collection

Manuscript Verse

1721-1959

This artificial collection of individual and groups of manuscript verse is not reflected in the more extensive 'Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse' index

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BOOK OF VERSE

1828

Written by 'One of the Fancy', John Dransfield when articled to William Holt of Schofield and Holt, solicitors, Horbury. Concern social occasions in Wakefield and mention many people.

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'Fairy Tales in Verse from Grimm' manuscript volume

Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)

08 Oct 1894

Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller. This manuscript is primarily fair copy with occasional additions and revisions, al...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript verses on the slave trade
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript verses on the slave trade

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

1792

Manuscript of ‘Sors misera servorum in insulis Indiae occidentalis’ (Ode on The West-Indian Slave Trade) submitted by Coleridge for the Browne Medal for classical composition in his first year at ...

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William Clayfield of Bristol, autograph verses attributed to him with one by Thomas Beddoes

Clayfield, William

1820s

Comprises autograph verses by William Clayfield, including 'On a young lady's stooping at a window to examine the Arabis-Stricta recently transplanted from St Vincent's rocks' (dated 1822); 'On the Ny...

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Archive Series

Oxford Book of Travel Verse

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1983-1988

This series contains items relating to the 'Oxford Book of Travel Verse' (1986), a volume edited by Crossley-Holland.

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The Life of Metrical and Free Verse

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1988-1997

This series comprises papers relating to Jon Silkin's critical work, 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry.' Includes extensive chapter drafts; papers relating to contributi...

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VERSES AND ESSAYS OF SIR JOHN RERESBY OF THRYBERGH

1638-1645

The volume has been used from both ends with 26 pages at one end containing verses some addressed to friends and family. The other end of the book has about 50 pages and includes original verses plus...

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Recipes in Verse

1980

Correspondence to and from Bateman and research for article on recipes written in verse, printed copy of John Keat’s Porridge by V McCabe, reference list for Recipes in Verse, typed and hand-written...

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