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Total number of records: 387

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items374
Archives13

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature387
Brotherton Collection185

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry387
poets, english27
classical poetry18
english drama8
romances, english7
latin poetry7
english language6
political ballads and songs, english6
ballads, english5
quotations, english5

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Great Britain11
France3
England2
Bath (England)2
Scottish Literature1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Park, Thomas (1759-1834)54
Dodsley, Robert40
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)40
Dryden, John (1631-1700)18
Dryden, John16
Tonson, Jacob13
Anderson, Robert (1750-1830)13
Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)13
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)9
Ellis, George (1753-1815)9

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From 160050
From 1700180
From 1800157

Count of Latest date

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Up to 169948
Up to 1799182
Up to 1899157

Archive Collection

Robert Browning, holograph poems

Browning, Robert (1782-1866)

c.1820-1866

Vol.1: The anatomical parish -- Vol.2: The enquiry -- Vol.3: The journey to London -- Vol.4: Law -- Vol.5: The legacy -- Vol.6: The medium's ball -- Vol.7: The medium's progress -- Vol.8: The murder -...

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Mortimer Collins, poems

Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)

c.1860-1876

Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain

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Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne

c.1810-1835

Finely bound in blue with leather spine embossed with gilt lettering as follows: MRS. HEMANS. MS. - MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. Includes a full transcription of the manuscript.

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Florence Peacock, original holograph manuscripts of poems

Peacock, Florence

c.1895-1896

Comprises the following poems:-(1) 'The charm of the rue'; (2) 'Living though the date be old'; (3) 'A stony way'; (4) 'Though your sins be as scarlet...', Isaiah 1.18; (5) 'A northern sailor'; (6) 'T...

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Sir Andrew Agnew, two satirical poems and a hymn

Agnew, Andrew

c.1830-1840?

Comprises: (1) 2 satirical poems, the first entitled 'To Saint Andrew Agnew' and signed by 'Ewe', the second entitled 'The "Monstre" Saint' and signed by 'Beta'; (2) A hymn, 'by Saint Andrew Agnew!' a...

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Thomas Kibble Hervey, The nun, a poem

Hervey, Thomas Kibble (1799-1859)

c. 1850

Comprises the apparently original holograph manuscript of Hervey's poem 'The nun'. The bound volume includes a biography of Hervey which is somewhat fuller than that found in the Dictionary of Nationa...

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Charles Benjamin Tayler, On the death of a youthful disciple, a poem

Tayler, Charles Benjamin (1797-1875)

1852

Comprises the apparently original autograph manuscript of Charles Tayler's poem 'On the death of a youthful disciple', written at Otley in 1852. The bound volume includes a biography of Hervey which i...

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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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Charles Whitehead, The Solitary: a poem, in three parts

Whitehead, Charles (1804-1862)

1831

Manuscript copy, possibly in Whitehead's hand, of his long meditative poem "The Solitary", which was first published in 1831.

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Fragment of a Novel

17 June 1816

Sometimes referred to as 'A Fragment' or 'The Burial: A Fragment'. The original holograph manuscript accompanied by a more recent typescript. The story was the result of a meeting that Byron had i...

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William Morris, alterations and corrections to The Story of Olaf the Holy, the son of Harald, translated from Icelandic by Eiríkr Magnússon, with over 150 lines of English poetry added by Morris

1891

Also known as: Olafs saga helga. English. Comprises the original autograph manuscript of Eiríkr Magnússon's English translation of the Icelandic (Old Norse) Saga 'The Story of Olaf the Holy' with t...

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The history of English poetry : from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of the eighteenth century (v.1)

Warton, Thomas (1728-1790); Price, Richard (1790-1833)

1824

Edited by R. Price.

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