Theme: Courtship, marriage
Social practices and dynamics of courtship and marriage (see also Family; Love; Satire-social).
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 c175
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1775–1794.
45 items.
General tone is sentimental and polite, includes pseudonymous attributions and apparently fictional epistolary exchanges.
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 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 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 c536
Title | Arabella Browne Her Booke Annoque Dom 1728 |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Arabella Browne, 1728.
28 poems.
Primarily epitaphs and songs, many satirising women and marriage.
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 d232
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Thomas Crofton Croker, ca. 1814–1818.
40 poems.
Sentimental and light poems, almost all addressed to female acquaintances.
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 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 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.
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. e. 17
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Unknown author, ca. 1750.
9 poems.
A stitched booklet, largely about the travels of a group of young friends and their local community of Blandford. Phonetic spelling and unpolished verse suggest a relatively uneducated compiler.
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. 28
Title | A Collection of Poems by various Hands, but [...] |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Eleanor Peart, 1768.
Organized chronologically and thematically.
182 poems.
A high proportion of original poetry; strong emphasis on the pastoral including the use of pastoral pseudonyms.
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.
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.
Chawton House 2622, MAN LOF
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Chawton House |
Lady Elizabeth Loftus, ca. 1800.
24 poems.
Lighthearted poems by members of the Loftus and Townshend families.
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 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 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 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 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.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.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.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.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 works.
Manuscript appears connected to the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network; the Tighe family; the Ladies of Llangollen
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.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.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.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.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.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.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 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.
Houghton MS Am 1919
Title | Miscellany poems, Anno 1731 |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Houghton Library |
Anonymous, 1731.
35 poems.
Sentimental poetry, many epistles and plenty about love.
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 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.
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 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 110
Title | Poems, & Verses on Several Occasions. 1726. |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, 1726.
Two separate thematic clusters on recto and verso sides.
47 items.
Lots of poems "To a Lady," "about a Lady," etc. about courtship, marriage, women, and beauty on the verso pages.
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 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 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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
Beinecke Osborn c130
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anne Heigham, 1781–ca. 1785.
38 items.
Includes multiple female authors, son's tribute to mother at the end of the book, and epilogues presumably spoken at local productions.
Polite poetry.
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 c351
Title | Poetry Vol: iii |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, 1751.
58 poems.
Collection of poems by various authors, mainly religious.
Beinecke Osborn c391
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anne Dickinson, 1787.
Only considered as a miscellaneous verse manuscript up to p. 146 (/338) because the later section is in different hands, and is dated after 1820.
95 poems.
Many poems about couples where one of the two dies; very much a women’s manuscript, with themes of love, conduct, friendship, pets etc.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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. d. 47
Title | Lusus Seniles; or, Trifles To Kill Time in C [...] |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Mr. Davis, ca. 1750–1765.
146 items.
Pastorals, love poems, and poems on aging with one about inability to perform sexually.
Kidlington circle with key to coterie pseudonyms on final page.
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.
Clark MS 1950.025
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Ann Countess of Strafford, ca. 1715–1730.
172 pages.
Primarily political satire, some acrostics of Ann's name; Jacobite-related material.
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 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.
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.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.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.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 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 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 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 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.
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).
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 11
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Smyth family of Heath, ca. 1710–1806.
This entry concerns only pp. 1-239 which consists of two hands, the second replacing the first but adopting the first hand's format. The second hand is also responsible for the index. All in all, however, the book is a sequence of at least six single-hand compilations.
173 items.
Political satire (Tory perspective), Oxford affairs, Wakefield-area affairs.
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 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.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 551
Title | A Collection of Miscellaneous poems on Diffe [...] |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, 1730.
19 poems.
Primarily religious and sentimental poems with six pastorals by Ambrose Philips.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 558
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, ca. 1740.
488 items.
Religious poetry including some poems on religious turncoats.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 739
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, ca. 1750-1760. Last item dated 1757.
8 poems, seemingly all original to the compiler's circle; several are unfinished.
Humourous parodies on politics, local social events, journeys.