Theme: Shakespeare
Poetry about Shakespeare and/or his works.
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 .
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.162
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1799-1803.
Ambigraph volume with poetry beginning at one end and prose anecdotes, mainly biographical, at the other. This listing pertains only to the poetry end of the manuscript.
288 poems.
Miscellaneous and short poems, mostly extracts, epitaphs, and epigrams.
Folger MS M.a.164
Title | Miscellany of Henry Jodrell, ca. 1780. |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Henry Jodrell, ca. 1780.
Ambigraph book with Shakespeare plays at one end, poetry at the other. Given the limited number of entries, the poetry end was perhaps abandoned.
12 poems.
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.
Beinecke Osborn c341
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anne Blandford, 1791 and later.
114 poems, mostly occasional.
Mostly verses by Hannah More and her circle.
Beinecke Osborn c382
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, late eighteenth-century.
29 poems on the First Line Index.
Collection of poems by various authors, riddles, parodies, 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 Eng. poet. e. 40
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Gabriel Lepipre, ca. 1750.
246 poems.
Good example of miscellany as autobiography; also includes lots of epitaphs.
Bodleian MS Mont. e. 13
Title | "A Book of Select Songs. Volume the first."; [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Mary Tadwell, 1744–1761. Taken over by John Watson Tadwell in a clear effort to continue/complete Mary Tadwell's work.
Three volumes composed roughly chronologically.
167 poems.
Contents heavy on riddles, acrostics, songs; frequent country-city theme, but with no sense of a specific country locality.
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.
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.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.170
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Emma Puleston, ca. 1819–1822.
Decorated with watercolours.
147 items, 100 poems.
Many very short sayings, and items related to Waterloo and the Irish rebellion representing a patriotic British stance.
Folger MS M.a.185
Title | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Vol: 1 |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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.187
Title | A Collection of Poetry |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous (probably from Scotland), 1737–ca. 1740.
415 poems
Many religious/devotional poems.
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.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 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 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
Leeds Brotherton Lt 106
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1745–1780.
An example of a collection that includes print paste-ins, perhaps added at a a later date onto the blank pages.
90 items, 48 poems.
Post-1745 Jacobite-related material.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 24
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Benjamin Coles, ca. 1729–1741.
A more mixed book compared to Lt 53 which is by the same compiler, and entirely devoted to poetry.
108 items, 66 poems.
Many songs, religious poems.
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. 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.