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english poetry12
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Barnes, Joshua1
Beardwell, E1
Coles, Benjamin1
Dryden, John (1631-1700)1
Fitzgerald, Thomas1
Maidwell, Lewis (1650-1715)1
St John, Henry 1st Viscount Bolingbroke1
Tate, Nahum (1652-1715)1

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BC MS Lt 54, p. 179: The opening of
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Miscellany of English Restoration verse

c.1680-1695

Substantial collection of English Restoration verse, in four hands

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BC MS Lt 15, p. 6: The opening of
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Commonplace book, chiefly of English poems

c.1720-1748

Commonplace book, almost entirely of English verse and prose. Most poems are anonymous. Some prose tales, scenes from plays, and a few Latin lines. On p.211: "I ended this book Novr 13th 1723"; prose ...

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BC MS Lt 81, f. 6r:
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Collection of topical poems, mostly political satires, concerning the reign of Queen Anne.

c.1704

Comprises 12 English satirical poems and 2 prose pieces concerning Queen Anne, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, and other public figures.

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BC MS Lt 97, f. 51r: The opening of Joshua Barnes's poem
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Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.

Barnes, Joshua

1708

Contains 90 eighteenth-century English poems by Joshua Barnes in praise of wine, occasioned by Bolingbroke's gift to him of a hogshead of 'red Portugal' in the late summer of 1705. The text is intersp...

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BC MS Lt 20, p. 111: The opening of William King's poem
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Poetical miscellany compiled by E. Beardwell

Beardwell, E

1724

'The six first Pastorals of Virgil, With Three of His Georgics; Together with some with [sic] Miscellany Poems [by various authors]. Transcrib'd and Collected By E. Beardwell, 1724'.

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BC MS Lt q 38, p.1: The opening of John Smith's poem
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A collection of the most choice and private poems, lampoons &c. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701, collected by a person of quality

1688-1701

An anthology of 92 poems, principally satires, and seven prose pieces, arranged in rough chronological order for the period 1688-1701, many dated.

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BC MS Lt 118, p. 3 inserted: An extract from Thomas Fitzgerald's poem
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Poems on several occasions, by Thomas Fitzgerald, with inserted manuscript material relating to the poem "Bedlam".

Fitzgerald, Thomas

c.1733

Comprises a copy of Fitzgerald's printed "Poems on several occasions" (London, 1733), the inserted material and annotations apparently representing a revision of the poem "Bedlam" in the author's own ...

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BC MS Lt 66, f. 1r:
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Treatise on grammar by Lewis Maidwell, with commendatory poems by John Dryden and Nahum Tate

Maidwell, Lewis (1650-1715)

c.1684

Manuscript treatise on grammar headed 'Grammar is the art of speaking', using Latin and English examples (ff.3r-37r); preceded by poems 'To Mr. L. Maidwell on his new method' (f.1r-v), signed 'J. Dryd...

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BC MS Lt 24, f. 29v: The opening of Thomas D'Urfey's song
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Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Benjamin Coles

Coles, Benjamin

c.1730-1741

The volume also contains some prose

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BC MS Lt 55, f. 4r: The opening of John Ayloffe's (?) poem
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Miscellany of satirical poetry and prose

1670s

Miscellany mainly of satirical English poems and prose pieces, 1670s. Poems occupy ff.4r-12v, 19r-26v, 30r-33r, 35r-49r. Satirical prose pieces on political and religious themes appear on ff.12v-19r, ...

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BC MS Lt 73, f. 2r:
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The reprisal; Britannia; and Ad versutum cardinalem

c.1709-1742

Seemingly autograph versions of two manuscript English poems bound together with a manuscript Latin poem, each provided with its own title page, apparently in separate hands of the first half of the 1...

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Conduct book, probably compiled during the early seventeenth century

c.1601-1650

Comprises moral instruction arranged into ten distinct sections according to the Contents list on f.1v, thus: (1) Gen[eral] observations, fol.2; (2) Busines, fol.35; (3) Know[ledge] of Men, fol.106; (...

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