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Total number of records: 173

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English Literature173
Brotherton Collection99
Leeds Poetry2

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poetry173
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epic poetry4
pastoral poetry4
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Bouterwek, Friedrich (1766-1828)11
Bridgen, John William11
Cecil Day Lewis11
Day Lewis, C (1904-1972)11
Hartley, George9
Monro, Harold (1879-1932)7
Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881-1938)5
Virgil5
Aristotle4
Auden, W H (1907-1973)4

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Archive Collection

Northern House Publishing Archive

1962-2006

This collection comprises papers relating to Northern House publishing venture established by Andrew Gurr and Jon Silkin at the University of Leeds, and its publishing activities. Includes papers rela...

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John Masefield, letters to Greta Stevens, 1952-1966, with associated material.

Masefield, John (1878-1967)

1925-1967

Comprises: (1) Autograph letters from John Masefield to Greta Stevens, March 1952 - ca. 1965, many discussing the work of W. B. Yeats and a Yeats commemorative event in 1964. (2) Four signed photograp...

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Jon Glover Archive

Glover, Jon

1961-1972

This collection contains items relating to the poet Jon Glover, and in particular his time as a student at Leeds University. It includes poem and short story drafts, correspondence, and administrative...

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Poem of the Month Club, poems issued

1970-1972

Collection of printed poems on individual sheets signed by their authors. Included here are the first and second folios issued by the club with poems by: (First Folio) Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, C. ...

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The modern fine gentleman

Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)

1746

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Modern poetry and the tradition

Brooks, Cleanth (1906-1994); Bridgen, John William

1948

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This modern poetry

Deutsch, Babette (1895-1982); Bridgen, John William

1936

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Pierce Penniless's supplication to the Devil

Nash, Thomas (1567-1601); Collier, John Payne (1789-1883); Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)

1842

With reproduction of original t.-p.: Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the deuill. Describing the ouer-spreading of Vice, and the suppression of Vertue. Pleasantly interlac'd with variable delights...

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The school of abuse, containing a pleasant invective against poets, pipers, players, jesters, &c

Gosson, Stephen (1554-1624); Collier, John Payne (1789-1883); Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)

1841

Includes reproduction of original t.p.

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A defence of poetry, music, and stage-plays

Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625); Laing, David (1793-1878); Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625); Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625); Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)

1853

"A reply to Stephen Gosson's 'Schoole of abuse'." Edited by David Lang. "Catalogue of Thomas Lodge's works": p. [lxvi]-lxxvii.

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English translations from ancient and modern poems (v.1)

1810

Vol.1. Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal. Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's art of poetry. Francis's Horace. -- vol.2. Rowe's Lucan. Grainger's Tibullus. Fawkes's Theocritu...

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