Theme: Literature
Discussions of a particular work, or the works of a particular author or authors; includes discussions of letters, manuscript poetry books (see also Shakespeare).
Beinecke Osborn c265
Title | (Poems &c) |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1730.
Additions and annotations possibly by a second hand in 1730s.
39 items.
Centred on Swift and Pope, with a few items about them by others, and a few additional satires.
Beinecke Osborn c360 (1/3)
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Gabriel Lepipre, ca. 1744–45.
252 poems.
Mostly sociable verse, especially arising out of interactions with women, and public affairs.
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 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.
Beinecke Osborn fc51
Title | The Parson's Barn A Collection of Poems of v [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Frances Glanville Boscawen and Julia Evelyn, begun in 1746.
120 poems.
Popular and original poetry on various themes. Large section of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9
Title | Miscellanies |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Thomas Phillibrown, 1740–1757.
Divided into sections according to odd and even numbered pages.
152 poems.
Very London oriented (Public affairs, local interest, celebrities).
Reflects a mid-century coterie centering around John Hawkins and Moses Browne.
Chawton House 4946, MAN WIL
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Chawton House |
Elizabeth Sarah Wilmot, 1744–1784.
52 poems.
Original compositions of Elizabeth Sarah Wilmot and her mother, Sarah Wilmot. Many poems about female friends and family.
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 2010.030
Title | Several works of Mr. Alexander Pope /collect [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Clark Library |
John Baptist Rasi, 1781.
15 poems.
All Alexander Pope poems, some written out in their entirety.
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.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.
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.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.179
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anne Blandford, ca. 1795–1805.
113 poems.
Emphasis on apparently original writings/occasional writings by Hannah More, and More's sisters and friends in youth that might not be found elsewhere.
Folger MS M.a.183
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Caroline Kilderbee, 1812–1863.
245 poems.
Mostly satirical items; great interest in celebrities.
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 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
Huntington MS 106
Title | Verses |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Huntington Library |
Robert Beere, ca. 1740s.
Very good example to look at organizing systems because he uses thematic, length, alphabetical, etc. to varying degrees throughout the book.
338 items.
Many items are short aphorisms or epigrams; much in nature of advice literature; various pieces on the nature of man (the human state).
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. 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. 581
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, ca. 1769–1790.
152 poems.
Bound-with The New Bath Guide (1766).
Celebrity-centred manuscript verse miscellany, with a particular focus on Samuel Johnson, Hester Thrale Piozzi, David Garrick, Peter Pindar, and Horace Walpole.
Beinecke Osborn c143
Title | Poems. 1796. |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, 1796.
7 items, including "To the Reader" poem.
Mix of religious and moral themes, political satire.
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 c163
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1770s.
19 items.
Unbound booklet with some copy errors suggesting this may have been a first copying of materials for a later collection.
Thematic focus on contentment, lack of ambition, choice of retirement and friendship over wealth and power.
Beinecke Osborn c172
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, late 1720s.
22 items.
Satirical (including an excerpt from Gulliver's Travels) and many poems on domestic animals. Includes references to Irish affairs.
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 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 c241
Title | Untitled |
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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 [...] |
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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.
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.
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. 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. 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 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. 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.
British Library Add. MS 59656
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | British Library |
Tickell family, 1787–ca. 1828.
35 poems.
Poems about love, friendship, and artistic pursuits, as well as commemorative poems about deaths in the family.
British Library Add. MS 70494
Title | Poems on Several Occasions |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | British Library |
Soame Jenyns, 1729.
Presentation copy of Beinecke Osborn c147, only slightly different contents. Poems written for Margaret Cavendish Harley, her father, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and her circle of friends.
18 items.
Flattery, panegyric.
British Library Add. MS 75569
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | British Library |
At least partially compiled by Frances, Viscountess Montague, begun ca. 1745.
93 poems.
Mildly moral and cynical about public affairs, social behaviours.
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 1982.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
E.L.T. Bale, ca. 1730–1740 (possibly begun as early as 1710s though).
This entry concerns the poetry end of the manuscript only.
48 poems.
Poems from popular periodicals, a few Latin poems, and a series of Horatian odes versified in English.
Clark MS 1993.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Francis Hawes, 1720–1760.
An ambigraph volume with poetry on both ends. This entry is concerned with the two ends of the volume only, not the middle (recipe) section which is in another hand.
165 poems.
Political satire poems in the style of early eighteenth-century; satire of court manners and prominent women. Many poems that mention Bath.
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.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.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.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 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.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.
Folger MS W.a.86
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anne Milles, ca. 1715.
21 poems.
Opens with a drinking song; not too serious a book in general.
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.
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.
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 119
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Mary Capell, ca. 1740–1751.
Verso pages are filled with explanatory notes identifying people and places from the poems.
87 items.
Political satire, love poems; poems about poetry (writing, collection, gifts of poetry), the arts, and prologues and epilogues.
The final section of poems seems to be associated with the Yorke-Grey coterie.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 12
Title | Miscellany Poems 1728 |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
George Scott, 1728–1779.
Consecutive hands (George Scott is the second hand) seemingly linked by a Miss Verney who becomes Mrs. Bowes, then a Miss Bowes in part two.
99 items.
The first section contains quite a few poems by women; the second half sees a shift to copying newspaper items, many of which are attributed.
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 15
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, 1723, with a few later additions in 1740s.
153 poems.
Mostly seventeenth-century poetry, typically very short poems with thematic titles. Lots of verses on classical Greek figures.
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.
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.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 93
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1750–1770.
This entry pertains only to ff. 1–64v (the first two compilers of three).
68 items.
Many poems about love, courtship, marriage, women.
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.
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.