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Archive Item

At Parting by Algernon Charles Swinburne

c. 1870

Undated handwritten transcript in an unidentified hand of a poem titled 'At Parting' by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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Miscellanea. The second part : in four essays. I.Upon ancient and modern learning. II. Upon the gardens of Epicurus. III. Upon heroick virtue. IV. Upon poetry

Temple, Sir William (1628-1699); Simpson, Richard (fl. 1690-1699); Simpson, Ralph (fl. 1680-1704)

1690

First edition. The first essay, the second and third essays, and the fourth essay have separate signatures. The third essay ends on Nn 6v., and is followed by a blank leaf.

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Four works in one volume

1268-1852

This volume is in four parts: Part 1: نور الايضاح ونجاة الأرواح nūru- lʾēḍāḥ wanaǧātu-lʾarwāḥ Author: الشرنبلالي ḥasan ašaranbaāli This is a gen...

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The dedicated life in poetry : and The correspondence of Laurent de Cayeux

La Tour Du Pin, Patrice de (1911-1975); Cayeux, Laurent de; Fraser, G S (1915-1980)

[1948]

"The French version of The dedicated life in poetry appeared as part of La somme de poésie in 1946 [under title: La vie recluse en poésie]"

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Ballad by Friedrich Schiller

1824

Parts one and two of a printed ballad by Friedrich Schiller: ‘Retsch’s series of outlines engraved by Henry Moses, to Fridolin or the Road to the Iron Foundery; a ballad’, in German and English,...

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An essay on translated verse

Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Hills, Henry (1713); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1709

There are two variant copies of the same year, in this one p. 16 is misnumbered 15. The preface, 'To the Earl of Roscomon', is signed: John Dryden. Also issued as part of: 'A collection of the bes...

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T? Newydd Writers' Centre, Wales

2009

Interview with Gillian Clarke, discussing Carol Ann Duffy's work, success, childrens' poetry; setting up T? Newydd Writers' Centre, Alice Oswald, the poetry community, commissions, being National Poet...

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Recital of Hungarian poetry

2 May 1957

Copy of a typewritten programme of a recital of Hungarian poetry at Leeds City Art Gallery on 2 May 1957, introduced by Stephen Ullmann, Professor of French Language and Romance Philology at the Unive...

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Prose papers

Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)

1918

Reprinted in part from various periodicals.

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Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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