Spectator
Essay periodical.
1711–1712.
ed. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- Regions: London, Middlesex
- Middlesex
Beinecke Osborn c156
Title | Amusements 1768-69 |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Mary Hilhouse, 1768–1769.
All in a single hand except the first item, which is the first three books of Pope's Essay on Man.
65 items.
Generally serious, moral poems; some essays or essay extracts taken from The Spectator.
Beinecke Osborn c186
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1760.
Unbound.
103 items.
Broad range of subjects organized thematically (e.g. divine poems, hymns, drinking themes, court characters, etc.)
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 189
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Anonymous Oxonian, 1790s.
Some items possibly marked for copying.
214 poems.
Lots of Latin poetry, and English poetry with Greek titles.
Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14
Title | Poetry Selected and Orginal, 1788 & 1789 |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Eliza Chapman, 1788-89.
87 poems.
Contributions by Scriblerus, Eliza Chapman's suitor.
Clark MS 1984.004
Title | A common place book. |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Thomas Trigg, 1785.
Attributes print sources of most poems.
54 poems.
Quite a few extracts of blank verse from Shakespeare plays, Latin poetry. The compiler seems to rely on a lot of anthologies of extracts .
Clark MS 1986.003
Title | Negotiolum bellae. |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Catherine Springett (with contributions by her daughter and granddaughter, Mary Boys and Mary Sankey), ca. 1742–1749.
149 poems.
Quite a few enigmas, riddles, but mostly poems, almost all contemporary. Seemingly indicative of a coterie with original poetry by "T.T." and other friends.
Folger MS M.a.15
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Associated with Penelope Judith Maitland, daughter of Col. Maitland
30 poems.
Attention to aesthetic features; themes of friendship, sentimental love, poverty, despair and hope.
Folger MS M.a.186
Title | A Collection of Poems |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Mr. Stocker of Portsmouth, ca. 1753–1780.
Lots of orginial material.
260 poems.
Much local content; clearly a supporter of the Opposition in the 1730s and 40s.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Revd. William Heath Marsh, ca. 1810.
~100 + ~85 = ~185 poems.
Volume 1 consists primarily of copied poetry, especially pastoral and morality poems or poems with classical themes; volume 2 contains much more original poetry, poems related to public affairs, and references to a Norfolk social network centred around Marsh and Thomas and Mary Blofeld.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 551
Title | A Collection of Miscellaneous poems on Diffe [...] |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, 1730.
19 poems.
Primarily religious and sentimental poems with six pastorals by Ambrose Philips.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 557
Title | Farago |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous author, ca. 1758-1776.
122 items, 77 poems.
Gentle satires of love, manners, morals, and thoughtlessness about life's brevity; also humorous and sentimental poems.