Theme: Humour, wordplay
Jokes; whimsy; wordplay; items with a humourous punchline (see also Satire; Imitation, parody).
Beinecke Osborn c150
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, though several items related to Pettiwards, ca. 1767–1783.
107 items (30 prose).
Pet poems; very miscellaneous prose items including a description of masquerade ball in Lincolnshire attended by Peart-Bate coterie members.
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 c170
Title | Untitled |
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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 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 c176
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, 1728.
79 items.
Primarily witty poetry, both high and low; some serious political and moral poems.
Beinecke Osborn c179
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1798.
Miniature book with elaborate illustrations, perhaps for children.
17 items.
Includes a song in Cumberland dialect and material from Poor Robin's Almanac.
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 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 c376
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Charles Earle, ca. 1750–1770.
96 items.
Original epitaphs, occasional poetry, prayers, and letters.
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.
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 c82
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anne Taylor, around or after the 1790s.
23 poems.
Verse extracts and original poems, many about death. One Jacobite poem, a couple poems about children, and some social satire.
Beinecke Osborn d447
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1810–1820.
50 poems.
Many poems with naval themes, accompanied by illustrations and watercolours of ships and harbours; also includes comic epitaphs, and songs with manuscript music voice settings.
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 d494
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Miss Hooper, ca. 1810–1820.
Approximately 80 poems.
Poems, epigrams, and a number of occasional verses attributed to members of Charles James Fox's social circle, several of which are concerning his death.
Beinecke Osborn fc130
Title | Orders from Aug. 6 1771. Benjamin Finn. |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Benjamin Finn, ca. 1790.
26 poems.
Occasional poetry, many copied from newspapers and dated. Mainly satirical, lighthearted verse, often political; several epigrams and poems about death and/or illness.
Beinecke Osborn fc183
Title | A Collection of Pieces &ca in Prose and Vers [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
P. Simpson, 1790–1793.
90 poems.
Mostly eighteenth-century poetry, namely conduct poems, pastoral poems, poems about the poor, epitaphs, and epigrams.
Beinecke Osborn fc185
Title | Gleanings in prose and verse, selected by Jo [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Joseph Taylor, 1799.
About 389 pieces of verse and prose.
Satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Also contains numerous humorous epigrams and epitaphs.
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. 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.
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.
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 1968.002
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Ann Bromfield, ca. 1740–1748.
42 poems.
Sentimental poetry, epistolary fiction.
Clark MS 1983.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Clark Library |
J. Andrew, ca. 1778–1789.
691 items, 576 poems.
All epigrams.
Clark MS 1986.003
Title | Negotiolum bellae. |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Catherine Springett (with contributions by her daughter and granddaughter, Mary Boys and Mary Sankey), ca. 1742–1749.
149 poems.
Quite a few enigmas, riddles, but mostly poems, almost all contemporary. Seemingly indicative of a coterie with original poetry by "T.T." and other friends.
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 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 2015.014
Title | Epitaphs. |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Rae family, ca. 1800.
151 pages.
Collection of epitaphs from gravestones and published sources.
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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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 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 692
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Thomas Ingoldsby (also known as Richard Harris Barham), 1808.
Poems, paraphrases, epigrams, and conundrums in English, French, Greek, and Latin.
Houghton MS Eng 768
Title | A Collection of various kinds of Poetry |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Melesinda Munbee (seemingly transcribed by Elizabeth Munbee), 1749–1750.
A manuscript verse miscellany assembled in childhood, based on a father's library.
Two volumes, 44 poems.
Many items by Swift; other bawdy contents.
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 100
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1775–1810.
130 items.
Pieces from Garrick's memoir and other prose with a record of Wyvill-G—ll coterie's poetic exchanges in the middle.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 104
Title | Poems of various kinds by the late Revd. Pet [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous compilation of poems by Peter Pinnell, ca. 1749–1790.
59 items.
Example of a one-author collection followed by a short section of poems by different authors.
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.
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. 557
Title | Farago |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous author, ca. 1758-1776.
122 items, 77 poems.
Gentle satires of love, manners, morals, and thoughtlessness about life's brevity; also humorous and sentimental poems.
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.
Beinecke Osborn c116
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anna Sharpe, ca. 1751–1790.
38 items, some possibly in the hand of later owner Anna Maria Sharpe.
Primarily lighthearted poems.
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 c481
Title | Select and Miscellaneous Poems, Scraps, Mottos &c. |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
John Freeman Milward Dovaston, 1773 and later.
Separate title page at the end for Odes by Thomas Gray.
75 poems, many original.
A mix of English and Latin poems and mottos with a particular interest in classical figures and religious belief.
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 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 d233
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
E.H., early nineteenth century.
23 poems.
Primarily sentimental subjects such as death, religion, and family, with a few more satirical entries.
Beinecke Osborn d256
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1816.
Over 200 poems.
Serious, sentimental, and occasional poems, many addressed to individual women.
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.
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.
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.
Folger MS M.a.103
Title | Poems on Various Subjects, FROM Various Authors |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
William Mitchell Sale, ca. 1756.
106 poems.
Early eighteenth-century satire, later comic poetry, love poetry, several lengthy Pope poems.
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.180
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Elizabeth Gilchrist, ca. 1800–1815.
One main hand plus one organising hand, maybe that of a daughter.
89 items, 74 poems.
Mixed book with themes of women, death, friendship, love, etc.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.