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Total number of records: 27

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Archives5

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English Literature12
Brotherton Collection11
Herbert Read Collection5
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection3
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

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literature27
english literature4
poetry4
authors, nigerian3
dramatists, nigerian3
ecrivains nigerians3
letter writing3
poetes nigerians3
poets, nigerian3
criticism2

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London, United Kingdom3
Nigeria3
Bath (England)1
Bath (Gb)1
England1
Englisch1
Nice, France1

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Bridgen, John William9
Eliot, T S (1888-1965)4
Hunt, James Henry Leigh3
Moore, Gerald (1924-2022)3
Soyinka, Wole3
Soyinka, Wole 1934-3
Soyinka, Wole, 1934-3
Auden, W H (1907-1973)2
Barbeau, A (1867-)1
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1

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Questions at issue

Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)

1893

Essays reprinted from various periodicals.

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Inclinations

Sackville-West, Edward Hon (1901-1965)

1949

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Obiter dicta

Birrell, Augustine (1850-1933)

1893

On cover: Second series.

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Archive Collection

A. C. Jacobs Collection

Jacobs, A C; Bialik, Hayyim Nahman (1873-1934); Vogel, David (1891-1944)

1955-2000

The collection represents the works of Arthur C. Jacobs, a Scottish Jewish Poet. It includes 6 boxes of archival material (MS 2065/1) and 5 volumes of printed works (MS 2065/2). The archival material ...

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Make it new

Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)

1934

Contents: Date line -- Troubadours: their sorts and conditions, about 1912 -- Arnaut Daniel, 1920 -- Notes on Elizabethan classicists, before 1918 -- Translators of Greek, before 1918 -- French poets,...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1814-1856

34 handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, beginning with his imprisonment at Surrey Jail from 1813 to 1815 and going on to contain references to publications and events...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1852-1858

Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke dating from 9 December [1852?] to 4 February [1858]. The letter dated 9 December [1852?] is a copy in Mary Cowden Cl...

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The Hogarth essays

1928

Contents: Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, by Virginia Woolf.--The prospects of literature, by L.P. Smith.--Anonymity: an enquiry, by E.M. Forster.--In retreat, by Herbert Read.--Catchwords and claptrap, b...

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Oral literature : seven essays

Duggan, Joseph J

1975

Reprinted from 'Forum for Modern Language Studies', vol. x, no.3.

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Life & letters at Bath in the xviijth century

Barbeau, A (1867-); Dobson, Austin (1840-1921); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1904

Title in red and black; title vignette. Includes bibliographical references (pages xvii-xxxi) and index.

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The reflector : representing human affairs, as they are : and may be improved

Shaw, Peter (1694-1763)

1750

Attributed to Peter Shaw.--NUC pre-1956. Essays. I iv: "Of the Sciences" [including "Natural Philosophy" and "Rhetoric"]; I viii: "Of Authors and Censors"; I ix: "Of Poetry and Rhime"; I x: "Of Poet...

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