Poet; friend and correspondent of Alexander Pope; known as a poet for love lyrics.

Illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of  fashionable verse.

Church of England clergyman and poet; professor of poetry at Oxford; known for occasional verse, a collection of which was issued posthumously in 1748.

Church of England clergyman and classical scholar; fellow of Queen's College Cambridge.

Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany mostly comprised of excerpts from Paradise Lost.

Primary compiler of a diverse manuscript verse miscellany of generally serious poems.

Independent minister and writer; known for his hymns; very popular with miscellany compilers, particularly for his ode “Say, Mighty Love, and teach my Song…”

Friend of John Hawkins and Moses Browne whose promising literary career was cut short by his early death; author of fifteen poems featured in Thomas Phillibrown’s manuscript verse miscellany.

Musician; member of the Rose Tavern club.

Lawyer and Recorder of Queenborough; Tonbridge School alumnus with a family connection to Jane Austen; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany which features at least three of his own poems.

Poet; known for his blank verse translation of Horace's Ars Poetica (1680) and his Essay on Translated Verse (1684), which was the first essay to enunciate the principles of poetic diction.

Church of England clergyman and poet.

Author and translator of the odes of Pindar. 

Likely a relative of A.T.W.’s, whose poems “To Richard Wharton,” “Coronation ode for Sir James Hall bart:,” “Epitaph written by a gentleman for himself,” and “By a clergyman at the request of a lady who had asked him for a receipt for a fine lady” feature in her manuscript verse miscellany.

Poet and playwright; Poet Laureate 1757–1785.

Emigrated from Sheffield, Yorkshire to New York in 1785 at the age of 20; kept a verse miscellany in the first few years in America, elaborately signing and precisely dating most of the items; married Sarah (Sally) Firman Warner in Dec. 1788 and became a prosperous merchant first in New York and then in Vermont.

Writer; known for her political and sentimental verses. 

Writer and diplomatist; Whig; known as a poet for his political satire.

Clergyman; author of “On a little Bird caught on board at Sea” and “An imitation of Catullus,” which appear in William Heath Marsh’s manuscript verse miscellany.

Young compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany that serves as a schoolbook. 

Poet and courtier; known for his rakish lifestyle and bawdy poetry.

Coterie poet; affiliate of the Garrick and Bluestocking circles; the featured author of the first volume of her daughter Elizabeth Sarah Wilmot Seton’s manuscript verse miscellany. 

Author of an occasional poem, “To my Friend the Reverend Mr. Barrett with a Paper Book,” which begins Barrett’s manuscript verse miscellany, Beinecke Osborn c193.