Home Manuscript Roles Major author Major author A writer whose poetry comprises a substantial portion of the miscellany. Person Manuscript Joseph Addison Beinecke Osborn c186 Beinecke Osborn fc132 Clark MS 1950.025 Leeds Brotherton Lt 45 Nicholas Amhurst Beinecke Osborn c570 J. Andrew Clark MS 1983.001 [Anonymous] Beinecke Osborn c143 Beinecke Osborn c187 Beinecke Osborn d69 Clark MS 1983.002 Folger MS M.a.187 Folger MS M.b.13 Leeds Brotherton Lt 100 Leeds Brotherton Lt 123 [I.L.B.] Beinecke Osborn d49 [Anonymous Irish Officer] Clark MS 2019.032 [Anonymous Oxonian] Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 189 [Anonymous Schoolteacher] Beinecke Osborn c91 [Anonymous Student of Kings School, Canterbury and Cambridge University] Beinecke Osborn c169 Christopher Anstey Beinecke Osborn c83 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 581 Thomas Austen Houghton MS Eng 611 Mr. B—y Beinecke Osborn c162 Jenny B. Clark MS 1983.002 Anna Letitia Barbauld Beinecke Osborn fc132 Clark MS 2008.023 Folger MS M.a.179 Folger MS M.a.53–58 Richard Barford Houghton MS Eng 611 Stephen Barrett Beinecke Osborn c193 Sally Bate Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 28 Mr. Bear British Library Add. MS 75569 Robert Beere Huntington MS 106 Daniel Bellamy Beinecke Osborn c186 Samuel Bishop Houghton MS Eng 611 Leeds Brotherton Lt 104 Thomas Pope Blount Houghton MS Eng 611 W.L. Bowles Folger MS M.a.181 William Lisle Bowles UChicago Library Codex Ms. 69 Samuel Boyce Leeds Brotherton Lt 93 Hester Bradley Beinecke Osborn d93 [Bree] Beinecke Osborn d258 Ann Bromfield Clark MS 1968.002 Ralph Broome Houghton MS Eng 926 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 551 Isaac Hawkins Browne Folger MS M.a.104 Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 Leeds Brotherton Lt 119 Leeds Brotherton Lt 35 Moses Browne Leeds Brotherton Lt 45 Charles Burney (1726–1814) Houghton MS Eng 926 Charles Burney (1757–1817) Beinecke Osborn d49 Charles Parr Burney Beinecke Osborn d49 Frances Burney D'Arblay Houghton MS Eng 926 Robert Burns Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 28 Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14 Folger MS M.a.179 Folger MS M.a.53–58 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 Mather Byles Houghton MS Am 1369 John Byrom Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Leeds Brotherton Lt 99 George Gordon Byron British Library Add. MS 58802 Folger MS M.a.142 Folger MS M.a.181 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 636 S.C. Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18 The Captain Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 17 Elizabeth Carter Beinecke Osborn c83 Beinecke Osborn fc132 Beinecke Osborn fc51 Clark MS 1976.014 Clark MS 1984.001 Clark MS 2008.023 Clark MS 2019.001 John Cennick Houghton MS Eng 614 Mary Chandler Beinecke Osborn c351 Eliza Chapman Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14 Thomas Chatterton Folger MS M.a.179 Mary Chudleigh Beinecke Osborn c258 Beinecke Osborn c548 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Folger MS M.a.179 Benjamin Coles Leeds Brotherton Lt 24 Leeds Brotherton Lt 53 William Collins Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Beinecke Osborn c351 Clark MS 2008.023 William Combe Beinecke Osborn c341 William Congreve Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 Leeds Brotherton Lt 110 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 Caroline Frances Cornwallis Beinecke Osborn fc124 Mary Harris Cornwallis Beinecke Osborn fc124 Sarah Cornwallis Beinecke Osborn fc124 Nathaniel Cotton Clark MS 1984.001 Abraham Cowley Beinecke Osborn c258 Folger MS M.a.164 Houghton MS Eng 584 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 Ashley Cowper British Library Add. MS 28102 Folger MS M.a.181 William Cowper Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Folger MS M.a.170 Folger MS M.a.53–58 Folger MS M.b.21 Folger MS M.b.23 A. Cox Houghton MS Eng 926 William Coyte Senior Leeds Brotherton Lt 104 George Crabbe Beinecke Osborn fc183 Frances Anne Greville Crewe Beinecke Osborn d49 Thomas Crofton Croker Beinecke Osborn d232 Mr. Crowfoot Beinecke Osborn c90 B. Cumberlege Houghton MS Eng 584 John Cunningham Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Beinecke Osborn fc132 Thomas D'Urfey Leeds Brotherton Lt 15 Sneyd Davies Beinecke Osborn c157 Frederick Dickinson Beinecke Osborn c391 J.B. Dickinson Beinecke Osborn c391 Robert Dodsley Beinecke Osborn c351 Maria Done Beinecke Osborn c139–142 John Freeman Milward Dovaston Beinecke Osborn c481 Francis Drake Clark MS 1994.001 William Drummond Leeds Brotherton Lt 15 John Dryden Clark MS 1950.025 Houghton MS Eng 584 Leeds Brotherton Lt 20 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 Stephen Duck Beinecke Osborn c165 Charles Earle Beinecke Osborn c376 Laurence Eusden UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 Francis Fawkes Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18 Anne Kingsmill Finch Beinecke Osborn c258 Folger MS N.b.3 Leeds Brotherton Lt 36 Thomas Fitzgerald Leeds Brotherton Lt 45 [G.W.] Fitzwilliam Folger MS M.b.23 Charles James Fox Beinecke Osborn d49 Folger MS M.a.182 Folger MS M.b.21 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 636 Philip Francis Beinecke Osborn c351 John Freeth Folger MS M.a.103 David Garrick Clark MS 1976.014 Folger MS M.a.179 Folger MS M.a.182 Leeds Brotherton Lt 100 Leeds Brotherton Lt 12 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 581 Samuel Garth Beinecke Osborn c351 Bodleian MS Mont. e. 13 Elizabeth Gilchrist Folger MS M.a.180 George Granville Leeds Brotherton Lt 36 Richard Graves Folger MS M.a.53–58 Thomas Gray Beinecke Osborn c481 Beinecke Osborn fc132 Beinecke Osborn fc51 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 Samuel Greatheed Clark MS 1956.002 Frances Macartney Greville Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18 Folger MS M.a.163 Hannah Griffitts Houghton MS Am 1013 E.H. Beinecke Osborn d233 Caroline Tighe Hamilton UChicago Library Codex Ms. 636 William Hamilton Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 James Hammond Beinecke Osborn c83 Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 40 Hannah Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 17 Francis Hawes Clark MS 1993.001 John Hawkins Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9 William Hayley Folger MS M.a.182 Folger MS M.a.53–58 Leeds Brotherton Lt 100 John Head Beinecke Osborn c341 Mary Allanson Heber Bodleian MS Eng. poet. f. 28 Reginald Heber Beinecke Osborn d233 Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 111 George Herbert Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Houghton MS Eng 614 Sarah Herd Beinecke Osborn c139–142 John Hervey Beinecke Osborn c154 Aaron Hill Huntington MS 106 John Hoadly Beinecke Osborn c176 Folger MS M.a.104 Folger MS M.a.185 John Hoole Leeds Brotherton Lt 100 Frederick Howard British Library Add. MS 58802 Leeds Brotherton Lt 103 John Hughes Folger MS M.a.165-166 Anne Home Hunter Folger MS M.a.181 Mr. Hyde Folger MS W.a.119 Soame Jenyns Beinecke Osborn c147 British Library Add. MS 70494 Folger MS M.a.110 Edward Jerningham Beinecke Osborn c90 Samuel Johnson Beinecke Osborn c83 Beinecke Osborn fc132 Folger MS M.a.182 Houghton MS Eng 1280 Sir William Jones Beinecke Osborn c90 British Library Add. MS 58802 Leeds Brotherton Lt 100 Benjamin Jonson Beinecke Osborn d49 Thomas Ken Leeds Brotherton Lt 24 Henry King UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 William King Leeds Brotherton Lt 20 L. Beinecke Osborn d69 Letitia Landon Folger MS M.a.181 John Langhorne Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Beinecke Osborn d233 Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14 Mary Shackleton Leadbeater Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Gabriel Lepipre Beinecke Osborn c360 (1/3) Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 40 Matthew Lewis Beinecke Osborn d49 Folger MS M.a.163 John Leyden Huntington MS 29165 Edward Littleton British Library Add. MS 37684 Elizabeth Townshend Loftus Chawton House 2622, MAN LOF Henry Loftus Chawton House 2622, MAN LOF George Lyttelton Beinecke Osborn fc51 Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 39 Bodleian MS Mont. e. 13 Clark MS 2008.023 Folger MS M.a.15 Folger MS M.a.15 Folger MS W.a.271 Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 Leeds Brotherton Lt 119 [R.M.] UChicago Library Codex Ms. 639 Judith Cowper Madan Beinecke Osborn fc51 Penelope Judith Maitland Folger MS M.a.15 William Heath Marsh UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 Andrew Marvell Clark MS 1948.003 William Mason Beinecke Osborn fc132 Folger MS M.a.182 Folger MS M.a.53–58 Leeds Brotherton Lt 99 James Merrick Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 39 Clark MS 1984.001 Merrifield Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 17 Anne Milbanke Beinecke Osborn c343 John Milton Beinecke Osborn c165 Beinecke Osborn fc132 Clark MS 1948.003 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 69 Mary Wortley Montagu Beinecke Osborn fc51 British Library Add. MS 37684 Huntington MS 82623 Anthony Moore Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18 Thomas Moore Folger MS M.a.142 Folger MS M.a.170 Folger MS M.a.181 Folger MS M.b.23 Hannah More Beinecke Osborn c341 Beinecke Osborn fc132 Clark MS 2008.023 Folger MS M.a.179 Sarah More Beinecke Osborn c341 Mrs. Moss Chawton House 2622, MAN LOF [Nadir] Beinecke Osborn d258 John Norris Beinecke Osborn c258 Beinecke Osborn c548 Leeds Brotherton Lt 45 Jonathan Odell Houghton MS Am 1013 John Oldham UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 Samuel Marsh Oram Folger MS M.a.179 P.P. Folger MS M.b.23 William Parsons Folger MS W.a.119 Eleanor Peart Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 28 Joshua Peart (Jr.) Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 28 Joshua Peart (Sr.) Princeton Taylor no. 87 Martha Ferrar Peckard Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18 Ambrose Philips Folger MS M.a.174 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 551 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 Katherine Fowler Philips Beinecke Osborn c189 John Pike Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9 Peter Pinnell Leeds Brotherton Lt 104 Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi Houghton MS Eng 1280 Houghton MS Hyde 35 (4) Houghton MS Hyde 35 (5) UChicago Library Codex Ms. 581 George Plaxton Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 Richard Polwhele Beinecke Osborn c139–142 John Pomfret Beinecke Osborn fc183 Folger MS M.a.165-166 Leeds Brotherton Lt 45 Alexander Pope Beinecke Osborn c156 Beinecke Osborn c176 Beinecke Osborn c265 Beinecke Osborn c570 Beinecke Osborn fc132 Beinecke Osborn fc183 Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9 British Library Add. MS 75569 Clark MS 1948.003 Clark MS 1950.025 Clark MS 1976.014 Clark MS 2010.030 Folger MS M.a.103 Folger MS M.a.104 Folger MS M.a.165-166 Folger MS M.a.185 Houghton MS Eng 611 Huntington MS 82623 Leeds Brotherton Lt 20 Leeds Brotherton Lt 45 Leeds Brotherton Lt 93 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 551 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 Samuel Pordage Houghton MS Eng 611 Ms. Porter Beinecke Osborn c83 William Warren Porter Beinecke Osborn c83 Matthew Prior Beinecke Osborn c189 Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 39 Clark MS 1948.003 Leeds Brotherton Lt 15 Leeds Brotherton Lt 61 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 Francis Quarles UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 Samuel Quincy Houghton MS Am 1369 A.R. Beinecke Osborn fc51 Ann Ward Radcliffe Beinecke Osborn c83 Maria Woodley Riddell Beinecke Osborn d69 [Rio] Beinecke Osborn d258 Robert Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 17 Martha Roberts Beinecke Osborn c391 Mary Robinson UChicago Library Codex Ms. 69 Mary Darby Robinson Beinecke Osborn c83 Folger MS M.a.179 Samuel Rogers Beinecke Osborn d49 Jane Griffies Roscoe Clark MS 2008.023 William Roscoe Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Clark MS 2008.023 Elizabeth Singer Rowe Beinecke Osborn fc132 Houghton MS Eng 614 Leeds Brotherton Lt 45 Nicholas Rowe British Library Add. MS 37684 Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 M.S. Beinecke Osborn c156 Charles Sackville Beinecke Osborn c189 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 John Sanderson Clark MS 2000.005 Mary Scott Taylor Clark MS 2008.023 Thomas Scott Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9 Walter Scott Folger MS M.a.142 Folger MS M.a.170 [Scriblerus] Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14 Anna Seward Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Beinecke Osborn c391 Folger MS M.a.53–58 William Shakespeare Clark MS 1984.004 Folger MS M.a.162 Folger MS M.a.164 Folger MS M.a.181 Leeds Brotherton Lt 15 Mr. Sharpe Beinecke Osborn c116 William Shenstone Beinecke Osborn c149 Beinecke Osborn fc132 Clark MS 1984.004 Clark MS 2008.023 Folger MS W.a.118 Elizabeth Ann Linley Sheridan British Library Add. MS 59656 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Beinecke Osborn d49 British Library Add. MS 59656 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 581 Stephen Simpson Beinecke Osborn c563 Charlotte Turner Smith Beinecke Osborn c130 Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Beinecke Osborn c343 Beinecke Osborn c83 Folger MS M.a.53–58 William Smyth Beinecke Osborn c139–142 Robert Southey Beinecke Osborn d49 Folger MS M.a.53–58 William Robert Spencer Beinecke Osborn d49 Edmund Spenser Leeds Brotherton Lt 15 Thomas Sprat Beinecke Osborn c351 Joseph Stansbury Houghton MS Am 1013 Stephen Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 17 George Stepney Beinecke Osborn c351 Helen Cranstoun D'Arcy Stewart Folger MS M.a.163 Mr. Stocker Folger MS M.a.186 Rebecca Story Porter Houghton MS Am 910 A. Strangman UChicago Library Codex Ms. 522 Jonathan Swift Beinecke Osborn c176 Beinecke Osborn c265 Beinecke Osborn c570 Beinecke Osborn c83 Clark MS 1950.025 Houghton MS Eng 611 Houghton MS Eng 768 Caroline Symmons UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 T.T. Clark MS 1986.003 Nahum Tate Houghton MS Eng 584 William Taylor (1765–1836) Beinecke Osborn c176 William Taylor (1673–1750) British Library Add. MS 37684 Elizabeth Amherst Thomas Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 109 Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18 Dr. Thompson Beinecke Osborn c139–142 William Thompson Houghton MS Eng 611 James Thomson Clark MS 2008.023 Folger MS M.a.181 Mary Woodyeare Tibbits Clark MS 1994.001 Richard Tickell British Library Add. MS 59656 Thomas Tickell Beinecke Osborn c351 Folger MS M.a.110 Mary Blachford Tighe Folger MS M.a.163 William Tighe (1766–1816) UChicago Library Codex Ms. 636 William Tunstall Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 C. A. Venn Beinecke Osborn d226 Edward Venn Beinecke Osborn d226 A.T.W. Folger MS M.a.182 W. Beinecke Osborn d69 J.W. Beinecke Osborn c258 Hannah Towgood Wakeford Beinecke Osborn c153 Edmund Waller Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 39 Clark MS 1948.003 Leeds Brotherton Lt 36 Leeds Brotherton Lt 61 Horace Walpole Beinecke Osborn c157 William Walsh Beinecke Osborn c351 Thomas Warton Leeds Brotherton Lt 99 Joseph Wasse UChicago Library Codex Ms. 639 Isaac Watts Beinecke Osborn c180 Beinecke Osborn c186 Clark MS 1948.003 Clark MS 1984.001 Folger MS M.a.165-166 Houghton MS Eng 611 Leeds Brotherton Lt 24 Leeds Brotherton Lt 53 Leeds Brotherton Lt 61 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 551 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 558 Foster Webb Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9 George Weller Leeds Brotherton Ltq 51 Dillon Wentworth Beinecke Osborn c351 Samuel Wesley Beinecke Osborn c154 Gilbert West Beinecke Osborn c351 Beinecke Osborn fc51 Robert Wharton Folger MS M.a.182 William Whitehead Folger MS M.a.185 Azarias Williams Folger MS M.a.116 Helen Maria Williams Folger MS M.a.53–58 Sir Charles Hanbury Williams Beinecke Osborn c241 British Library Add. MS 75569 Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 James Willins UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 John Wilmot Beinecke Osborn c189 Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 Leeds Brotherton Lt 110 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 Sarah Morris Wilmot Chawton House 4946, MAN WIL George Wither Beinecke Osborn c139–142 John Wolcot Beinecke Osborn c82 Beinecke Osborn c83 Beinecke Osborn c90 Folger MS M.a.53–58 UChicago Library Codex Ms. 581 William Wordsworth Folger MS M.b.21 William Worth Beinecke Osborn c110 Daniel Wray Folger MS M.a.185 Mehetabel Wesley Wright Beinecke Osborn c651 Mrs. C. Wyvill Leeds Brotherton Lt 100 Thomas Yalden Leeds Brotherton Lt 103 Ann Cromartie Yearsley Folger MS M.a.179 Charles Yorke Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 Leeds Brotherton Lt 119 Edward Young Leeds Brotherton Lt 45