Theme: Nature
Descriptions of non-human natural phenomena, seasons, landscapes.
Beinecke Osborn c135
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Philip Yorke 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, ca. 1756. Principal figure in Yorke-Grey coterie.
12 items—11 original or local poems, 1 Latin paste-in.
Sonnets.
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 c152
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Mrs. Ogle, ca. 1747.
32 items.
Sequence of names and hands suggests it was originally a book of 24 poems compiled by Mrs. Ogle as a gift; then the recipient, possibly Mary Dyott, added 8 items, and a later hand contributed a few additions.
Lighthearted poems about love; some satire of manners, marriage.
Beinecke Osborn c165
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anne Watkins, ca. 1731.
32 items (23 are excerpts from Paradise Lost and 4 are Stephen Duck poems).
New Year's theme of reflection and self-improvement.
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 d226
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, early nineteenth-century.
19 poems.
Primarily sentimental poems, many written by Edward Venn and C.A. Venn on such subjects as passions, nature, friendship, and solitude.
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 d492
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
John Waite, ca. 1800.
In a single hand up to f. 139 when two other hands take over for the last twenty folios. This entry considers only the first hand's section of the manuscript.
139 folios.
Lyrics, fables, and occasional verse. Multiple poems about violets.
Beinecke Osborn d69
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, with poems by Maria Banks Riddell and poems about Mary Tighe, 1814–1816.
46 poems, all original to the manuscript.
Primarily narrative poems on mythical creatures or historical subjects, and poems about nature; also includes many fables, love poems, and poetic renditions of the Psalms.
Beinecke Osborn d80
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anne Butler, begun in 1806.
186 pages.
Elegies, epitaphs, and poems on death, friendship, moderation, hope and female virtue.
Beinecke Osborn fc124
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Mary Harris Cornwallis, ca. 1790–1820.
Approximately 108 poems.
Many occasional poems by the compiler and her family; this manuscript is also packed with print insertions, many of which are (prose) news items about the deaths of royals.
Beinecke Osborn fc132
Title | Poems on Several Occasions; Collected from D [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
James Forbes, 1766–1800.
This entry concerns only the first volume, as the second is entirely prose.
151 poems.
Poems on various subjects, including many on death and women, but also conduct, retirement, nature, and slavery.
Beinecke Osborn fd32
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, 1811–1818.
Over 100 poems.
Largely poems on nationalistic subjects, others focused on serious and sentimental subjects like nature, death, friendship, and religion.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 109
Title | The Whims of E.A./afterwards Mrs. Thomas |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Daughter or granddaughter of Elizabeth Amherst Thomas, 1798.
46 poems.
Entirely original Elizabeth Amherst Thomas poems compiled retrospectively, often whimsical, witty, resisting stereotypes about women.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1755–1765; owned by Mrs. Sophia Wallis early nineteenth-century.
Very plain and incomplete.
8 poems.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 39
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1783.
102 poems.
Moralizing book with some lighter poems; many items sourced from "L—'s Miscellany," and many items from the 1760s.
Bodleian MS Harding b. 41
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Mary Marshall, 1805.
75 items.
Mostly popular songs.
Note from Harriet Binny endorsing Polly's taste in compiling her book suggests the manuscript circulated among friends.
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 1982.002
Title | Miscellany Poems : containing various kinds [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Elizabeth Munbee, 1745.
16 poems.
Miscellaneous collection of poems by popular poets like Samuel Wesley, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Nicholas Rowe.
Clark MS 1987.001
Title | Pleasing variety for Miss Mary Arnold / Mrs. [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Mrs. Stapleton for Miss Mary Arnold, ca. 1780s–1790s.
212 poems.
A gift for formal or informal educational use. A lot of riddles and poems about flowers; emphasis on items written by young ladies. Most items about or intended for women.
Clark MS 1994.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Mary Woodyeare Tibbits, ca. 1800.
A later owner, Mary Isabella Hood, used the volume to press flowers and leaves.
113 poems.
A book structured upon the narrative of her life, almost entirely original poems.
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 2008.023
Title | I: "Poems extracted from Several Authors. Wi [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Jane Griffies Roscoe, 1774–1790.
200 poems.
Interest in female poets and women-centered poetry.
Folger MS M.a.142
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Horatia Nelson (16 years old), 1817.
100 poems.
Quite a banal book but a good indication of what poetry was popular, including some poems on the Napoleonic wars, and Irish/Scottish materials.
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.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 M.b.21
Title | Miscellany of prose and poetry of Mary Gay, [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Mary Gay, 1801–1809.
324 items.
Preference for humorous pieces; some riddles.
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 Eng 611
Title | I: "A collection of poems and various fragme [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Rev. Thomas Austen, 1760.
Three volumes, only the first two of which are manuscript verse miscellanies, and therefore included in this entry.
768 poems.
A real variety of contents. The first volume revolves around poems about various natural elements and experiences of country life. The second volume
Houghton MS Eng 680
Title | Poems on Various Occasion's and By Several H [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Anonymous, 1780.
55 poems.
Mainly devotional or conduct related poems, some describing Bristol and Quaker life.
Houghton MS Hyde 35 (4)
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1810.
50 poems.
Entirely or almost entirely original poetry, many occasional.
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.
Huntington Stowe Vol. III
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Huntington Library |
Anna Eliza Grenville, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, 1811–1832.
A mix of copied poetry and clippings.
33 poems.
Mostly poems about political events and nature.
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.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 20
Title | The Six first Pastorals of Virgil, With Thre [...] |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
E. Beardwell, 1724.
31 poems.
Pastorals, georgics.
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. 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.
Beinecke Osborn c662
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1780–1790.
Around 100 pages.
Mainly occasional, comic, and sentimental poems by late eighteenth-century authors. Also includes a number of items related to Samuel Johnson and his circle.
Beinecke Osborn c83
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous member of the Porter family, late eighteenth-century.
4 volumes, 2039 poems.
Contemporary poetry, many items commonly included in manuscript verse miscellanies.
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 d267
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, 1805 or later.
71 items.
Primarily sentimental entries, poems on such subjects as sorrow, love, and exile, and copies of letters and verses relating to Major John André and Anna Seward.
Beinecke Osborn d49
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Charles Parr Burney, ca. 1803.
354 pages.
Primarily elegies, love poems, and occasional verse, with some patriotic and religious verse, and short comic verses.
A large section copied from a Crewe Hall album composed during the 1780s, reflecting the work of the Crewe coterie.
Beinecke Osborn d93
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Hester Bradley, 1807–1810, with two poems added in 1831.
49 poems.
Occasional poems and poems about friends and family, all with a Quaker bent.
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. 47
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Anonymous female member of John Graham Clarke household, ca. 1752–1766.
66 items.
Interest in women's conduct and morality.
British Library Add. MS 58802
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | British Library |
Augusta Byron Leigh, 1805–1813.
101 poems.
Lots of poems on celebrities, poems by Byron.
Clark MS 1948.003
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1709–1712.
57 items.
Very author oriented, with source attributions.
Clark MS 1983.002
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Anonymous (with many references to the Cotton family of Eardley), ca. 1788.
Only the first section of the manuscript (by the first hand) is examined in this entry.
17 poems.
Themes of friendship.
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 2019.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Catherine Tuthill Massy, ca. 1795.
46 poems.
A young Irish lady's book, themes of anti-slavery, interest in captives in India, sufferings of Ireland.
Folger MS M.a.110
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
H. Watkins, ca. 1730s–1775.
245 items.
Broad range of subject matter, but generally serious poetry.
Folger MS M.a.116
Title | A Selection of Modern Poems |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Azarias Williams, 1785–1790.
The compiler blurs his own voice with that of his sources by signing his name to much of what he copies.
78 poems.
Choices seem significant autobiographically—themes of emigration, social behaviour, British patriotism, New York, death, children, sentimental courtship, male unfaithfulness/libertinism, religious/devotional expressions, and topographical poetry.
Folger MS M.a.163
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, 1786–1798.
120 poems.
A very feminocentric collection with many female-authored work.
Tighe family coterie; Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network.
Folger MS M.a.165-166
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, seemingly ca. 1755.
Second volume seems to be organized thematically, with blank leaves left to be filled in later on the same theme (a good example of an organizational system in progress).
82 items.
Initially focused on high-profile writers of the turn of the century, though the second volume contains mid-century work.
Folger MS M.a.181
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, 1818–1823.
Solutions given for riddles and anagrams, suggesting the book's use for social reading and games.
355 items, 200 poems.
Swings from sentimental/tragic to lightly comic, but no really cynical poetry – mostly sentimental or clichéd humour.
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.
Folger MS M.a.231
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1750.
36 items.
Chiefly epigrams and satirical verse.
Folger MS M.b.13
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1773-1806.
Crowded, no margins, looks more like a commonplace book than a usual poetry miscellany.
361 poems.
Enormous amount of material compiled over many years roughly chronologically.
Folger MS M.b.23
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1805–1817.
340 poems.
Themes of love, support for the oppressed (slaves, Irish peasants, workhorses, foundlings, animals in general, etc.), consumption.
Maybe part of local network as some pieces attributed to single initials.
Folger MS N.b.3
Title | Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, ca. 1685–1701 or 1702.
109 poems.
Poems and plays.
Folger MS W.a.119
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1800.
42 items, 25 poems.
Contains four page "Follies and Vices" set, and five poems by members of the Della Cruscans.
Folger MS W.a.271
Title | Poetry |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Louisa Grey, ca. 1780s.
Some items specified as not for circulation.
150 poems.
Many poems about women, love; some epitaphs.
Houghton MS Eng 1280
Title | Poems on several occasions with introductory [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, 1810–1814.
Five volumes for her adopted nephew, but only the first three are primarily poetry, and therefore considered manuscript verse miscellanies.
Largely original occasional poems accompanied by prose biographical material and information about the circumstances of each item's composition.
Houghton MS Eng 1323
Title | Loisir |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Sambrooke Freeman, 1737.
Resembles a scrapbook; includes hand-coloured print illustrations.
95 poems.
Copies of verses, riddles, short stories, and newspaper clippings.
Houghton MS Eng 687
Title | Eliza Woolley's book |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Eliza Woolley, 1806.
7 poems.
Mostly love poetry.
Houghton MS Eng 926
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Charlotte Burney Francis Broome, 1771–ca. 1806.
82 poems.
Mostly original poetry by members of the Burney family with themes of family, courtship/marriage, and death.
Houghton MS Hyde 35 (5)
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Hester Thrale Piozzi, ca. 1818.
183 poems.
Mostly other authors, some original work, often addressed to her daughters.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 123
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1700.
This entry concerns the first 150 pages only (before the first change in hand).
100 items.
Thematic groupings involving passage of time, ephemerality of life, solitude, religion, kings, etc.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 36
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1715.
72 items.
Essentially the "greatest hits" of Finch, Granville, and Waller, with some Pope thrown in.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 45
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1743–1767.
280 items.
Subject matter mainly religious, contemplations of death; some are not squarely religious, praising virtue, friendship, science, etc.; some Jacobite-related material.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 53
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Benjamin Coles, 1740–1741.
This manuscript is entirely devoted to poetry, whereas Lt 24, by the same compiler, is a more mixed book. This book was intended as a gift to his brother.
40 items.
Largely religious and/or Latin poetry.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 61
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
James Gollop, ca. 1715.
Possible example of a socially humble compiler, an aspirational book.
26 items.
Generally very common love poems and descriptive poems, common choices for a non-political miscellany of the early decades of the century.
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. 636
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
William Tighe, ca. 1815.
25 poems.
Mainly light-hearted original poems on such subjects as love, theatre, and furniture.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 757
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Elizabeth Church, 1766–ca. 1791.
68 poems.
Copied by multiple hands but primarily by Elizabeth Church.
Popular manuscript verse miscellany poems and epitaphs.