Theme: Education
Related to educational institutions or educational experiences; schoolmasters; events at university colleges; school exercises.
Beinecke Osborn c169
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous graduate of King's School, Canterbury and student at Cambridge University, ca. 1760s.
7 items.
Most items related to King's School and Cambridge, seemingly all original.
Beinecke Osborn c193
Title | Untitled |
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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 c591
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
John Sandys, 1753-1759.
Manuscript exercise book containing 26 items, related to the compiler's social circle at Eton college. Includes elegies, occasional poems, and translations.
Beinecke Osborn c91
Title | The Helicon Bag |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous schoolmistress (possibly named Eliza), 1788.
61 items.
Frequent references to the material having been written for schoolchildren or for occasions such as weddings and departures of friends.
Beinecke Osborn d258
Title | The thoughts of three ... Employment during [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, with illustration by Mary Rogers, 1808.
37 poems.
Two of the three sections are poems by "Bree," "Nadine," and "Rio" composed for "Employment" during winter 1808.
Pastoral poems; conduct, morality poems; poems about domestic life and nature.
Beinecke Osborn d512
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Mary Allcard, ca. 1805–ca. 1810.
2 volumes, 12 poems.
Probably kept during Allcard's education at Ackworth School, a Quaker establishment. Most of the poetry is on moral or religious themes. Also includes several prose entries concerning Quakers in Pennsylvania.
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 Eng. poet. e. 111
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Reginald Heber, ca. 1788–1789.
Very plain book.
18 poems.
Commemoration of people and events in the Brent River area.
Clark MS 1956.002
Title | A Poetical Miscellany. In two parts. /by S. [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Samuel Greatheed, 1772–1773.
24 poems.
A good example of a miscellany by one author/compiler; includes some imitations and translations.
Clark MS 2000.005
Title | I, II: "Poetical compositions on various Sub [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
John Sanderson, 1787–ca. 1816, with one entry from 1832.
Four volumes, but this entry concerns only the first three (the poetry miscellanies).
121 poems.
Translations of Latin poetry, humorous poetry, apparently all original.
Clark MS 2019.038
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Sarah Wills, 1736–1737.
Alternates between poetry and receipts, bills, and letters, but gives the sense of an integral whole.
64 items, 19 poems.
Apparently a young woman's schoolbook which includes instruction in a variety of topics including handwriting, poetry, morals and commerce.
Folger MS M.a.169
Title | Collectanea quadam Nugalia |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
J. Wright, ca. 1700–ca. 1715.
Apparently owned and used by William Bromley immediately after the composition of the book by J. Wright.
100 items, 65 poems.
Very mixed book, containing extracts, poems, epitaphs, anagrams, antiquarian notes, satiric poetry etc.; Lots of recorded info re: languages, mathematics, etc.; Jacobite-related material.
Houghton MS Am 1369
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Benjamin Church, 1750–1752.
16 poems.
Mainly satirical poems by group of Harvard students.
Houghton MS Eng 584
Title | Miscellany poems by severall hands. Collecte [...] |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
B. Cumberlege, 1703.
Contains title pages for many individual poems.
34 poems on the Table of Contents, but some grouped together under headings, so really closer to 50 items.
Occasional and religious poems, many about friendship, and a high proportion by the compiler. Position appears to be Jacobite and Roman Catholic.
Region of creation possibly London, based on later Cumberlege family records.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 99
Title | Old Songs & other Poems. |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1770–1790.
Very good example of attributions of magazine sources.
117 items.
The first half is a very eclectic mix with many epitaphs, Latin doggerel, riddles, prose pieces, etc. interspersed with the poems. The second compiler seems primarily interested in jokes, parodies, quirky items. An apparent interest in Oxford-related items.
Leeds Brotherton Ltq 51
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
George Weller, ca. 1750.
41 items.
Many pieces referencing or composed at Tonbridge School; some Jacobite-related material.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 639
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Richard Porson, ca. 1780.
Includes a second section of bound-in separates with its own Table of Contents.
75 poems in the first section + 52 in the second.
Jacobite- and Cambridge-related material.
Beinecke Osborn c139–142
Title | I, II: "A Collection of Poems. Thomas Binns [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Thomas Binns, 1789–1799.
"Collection of Poems" numbered Vols. II and III, and "Miscellaneous Manuscripts" numbered Vols. 3 and 4.
117 + 74 + 112 + 116 = 419 items, numerous very long poems.
Quaker writings; political themes (anti-war, anti-slavery, pro-revolutionary); sentimental poetry and poetry about nature.
Beinecke Osborn c149
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1780.
15 items.
Approximately half Latin poetry + four Shenstone poems and one tribute to Shenstone.
Shenstonian pastoral; university poetry.
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.)
Beinecke Osborn c563
Title | M.S. being a choice Farrago of new Poems, la [...] |
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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.
British Library Add. MS 37684
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | British Library |
William Taylor of South Weald, ca. 1730.
61 poems.
Miscellaneous poetry collection including many Latin and Jacobite-related poems, in addition to original poetry. Irregular folio numbering suggests a post-bound compilation.
Folger MS M.a.104
Title | A Collection of Poems by Several Hands |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Charles Plumptre ca. 1730.
79 poems.
Includes school exercises; some poems possibly from friendship circle that includes John Hoadly and Isaac Hawkins Brown; could be connected with Newcombe’s school in Hackney; satires on women; poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
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.160
Title | A Collection of Poems from Various Authours. JB |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
John Brewster, ca. 1770–ca. 1810.
130 poems.
Frequent epitaphs, poems on death.
Folger MS M.a.174
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, 1724–1728.
109 poems.
Almost entirely early eighteenth-century poetry. Many contemporary satirical pieces, and items from Mist's Weekly Journal.
Folger MS M.a.182
Title | A miscellaneous collection in prose and vers [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
A.T.W, 1793–ca. 1800.
A lot of retrospective editing including comments and cross-outs.
153 poems.
Many poems by or about important figures of literature and the stage; also epitaphs, inscriptions and letters; many poems by women.
Folger MS M.a.53–58
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Verses collected by John Dixon ca. 1780–1817, then copied posthumously by his daughter, Judith Dixon Beecroft.
Six volumes.
Popular eighteenth-century poetry.
Folger MS W.a.118
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1765.
29 items.
Coz. Widow Davis gives compiler a Shenstone manuscript ca. 1752.
Lighthearted poems (many about public affairs) with some social satire.
Houghton MS Am 1894
Title | A poetical jumble, vivified from the rubbish [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Samuel Church, 1786.
2 volumes, 33 poems.
Rather crude homemade bindings showing stab-stitching and stitching along spine.
Mainly poems about death and/or religion. Vol. 2 expands to include more social topics.
Houghton MS Am 910
Title | Miss Rebecca Story's Book |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Rebecca Story Porter, 1796–ca. 1803.
17 poems.
Seemingly a schoolgirl's book, including a list of students at Mr. Woodbridge Academy, with the addition of a personal poem about her brother's death at the end.
Houghton MS Eng 569.63
Title | Epigrams |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Anonymous Norfolk Clergyman, ca. 1814–1822.
Only included up to p. 82 (/119) because the rest of the book is game charts and other miscellaneous contents.
53 poems.
Primarily local interest, political, and religious poetry.
Huntington MS 29165
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Huntington Library |
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury, ca. 1815.
Many materials acquired through manuscript transmission; full of evaluative commentary.
90 poems.
Very Scottish in contents, reflecting Lady Charlotte's life in Edinburgh before 1810.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 103
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Eliza Marriott, ca. 1763–1803.
29 items.
Generally serious poems with an interest in local Yorkshire elites.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 125
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1740s.
73 poems.
Seemingly a woman’s book with themes of nature, courtship, public affairs.
Princeton Taylor no. 87
Title | Poems and Songs upon Several Occasions. |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Princeton University Library Special Collections |
Joshua Peart, 1726.
256 poems.
A large eclectic book with a special concentration of pastoral poems and songs, political satire and other poems about politicians, and humorous poems; also contains multiple poems about alcohol and tobacco.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, 1715–1717.
318 poems.
Diverse collection of poems, with a significant number of poems satirising women and marriage; also interested in the classics, public affairs, literature, Oxford, theatre, and religious satire.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 69
Title | Poetry miscellany |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
John Liptrott, ca. 1786.
215 items, 151 poems, many of which are introduced with lengthy prose anecdotes or critical prefaces.
Contents include satires of social issues and political corruption, historical anecdotes supporting Church of England, nature poetry, recollections of favourite dogs.