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Total number of records: 196

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Books and printed items141
Indexes55

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Brotherton Collection119
English Literature68
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse53
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3
Letters Database2
Ripon Cathedral2
Cookery Collection1

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english poetry5
latin poetry, medieval and modern3
latin literature3
maxims2
songs with instrumental ensemble1
songs with orchestra1
songs, english1
painting1
painters1
english letters1

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Great Britain4
Orkney (Scotland)1
Caithness1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Pope, Alexander196
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)140
Homer39
Mr Pope13
Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)11
Warburton, William10
Warburton, William (1698-1779)10
Dryden, John (1631-1700)9
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)9
Dryden, John9

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From 180024

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Up to 189927

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Cato : a tragedy

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1770

Includes a number of verses addressed to 'The author of the tragedy of Cato' by Richard Steele, J. Hughes, Edward Young, L. Eusden, Thomas Tickell, Digby Cotes, and Ambrose Philips.

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Cato : a tragedy

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1755

Prologue written by Alexander Pope.

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Title: Motto

Author: Pope, Alexander

Attribution: Pope's Universal Prayer

Date(s): 1715

Manuscript: Lt 96

Contents: The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"

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The Iliad of Homer

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1777

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The Odyssey of Homer

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1805

Engraved title-page.

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The odyssey of Homer

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

1818

Added engraved title-page, dated 1817.

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The Iliad of Homer (v.1)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1771

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The Iliad of Homer (v.2)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1771

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The Iliad of Homer (v.3)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1771

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The Iliad of Homer (v.4)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1771

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The Iliad of Homer (v.5)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1771

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