Oxford, Oxfordshire
Beinecke Osborn c170
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1701-1730 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1712.
15 items.
Comic and satirical poems, often political; items directly related to political issues of late reign of Queen Anne.
Original productions of the Oxford-Winchester school circle.
Beinecke Osborn c193
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Stephen Barrett, 1770-1794.
Gift from Cuthbert Wilson with a presentation poem.
45 items.
Original poems in Latin and English, mostly by Barrett, including school exercises; translations by Barrett of early modern and eighteenth-century English poems into Latin.
Beinecke Osborn c241
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1731-1760 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Richard Chaloner Cobbe, ca. 1753.
Thick boards seemingly worn by use.
67 items.
Seems reflective of an Oxford circle of male poets.
Latin poetry, bawdy satire, and poems about women.
Beinecke Osborn c563
| Title | M.S. being a choice Farrago of new Poems, la [...] |
|---|---|
| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Stephen Simpson, 1773.
Courtship gift to Sarah Leaper, Simpson's future wife.
29 poems.
Themes of love and friendship.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 189
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| 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 Eng. poet. d. 47
| Title | Lusus Seniles; or, Trifles To Kill Time in C [...] |
|---|---|
| Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Bodleian Library |
Mr. Davis, ca. 1750–1765.
146 items.
Pastorals, love poems, and poems on aging with one about inability to perform sexually.
Kidlington circle with key to coterie pseudonyms on final page.
| Title | Regions | Description | Manuscripts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford Magazine |
Magazine. 1768–1776. |
0 | |
| Jackson's Oxford Journal |
Newspaper. 1753–1898. |
1 |
Kidlington circle
A circle or network centred around Kidlington in Oxfordshire, various Oxford Colleges, and Leicestershire (Burleigh Park, etc.), and active in the 1760s. Members included various Oxford dons and their extended families.
Members
Oxford-Winchester School circle
A group of school friends writing between the sister schools New College Oxford and Winchester School, known as the “St. Mary Winton” colleges, c. 1712. Contributors are named by surname at the end of each poem of Beinecke Osborn c.170.