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Dorothy Una Clough2
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips2
Dorothy Una Phillips2
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una2
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)2
Alexander, Michael1
Alexander, Michael (1941-)1
Beetham, John1
Bevan, Tony (1951-)1
Cecil Day Lewis1

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Thought in twentieth-century English poetry

Tschumi, Raymond

1951

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The lyric impulse

Day Lewis, C (1904-1972)

1965

Bibliographical references in "Notes": pages [157]-160.

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Jean Overton-Fuller

1962-1968

Letters from Jean Overton-Fuller to Francis Berry concerning the writing of Victor Neuberg's biography. The letters also reference Berry's trip to Greenland and Overton-Fuller's later trip to Icelan...

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Kunio Shimane

1931-1994

One undated notecard asking Berry for permission to write a long letter to discuss the work of Robert Southey, signed Nobuaki Koyaki.

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The earliest English poems

Alexander, Michael (1941-)

1966

"Notes on books": p. 159-[160].

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BC MS Lt 115, p. 33: The opening of William Hamilton's poem
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Collection of poems by William Hamilton Esq. of Bangour.

Hamilton, William

c.1750

Contains 27 eighteenth-century English poems by William Hamilton, preceded by an introductory essay and concluded with an index to all the contents of the manuscript.

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A Devonshire verse miscellany.

1770s

Comprises approximately 75 poems supposedly compiled in the West Country in the 1770s, some with clues to the locality of the scribe. The miscellany includes an unrecorded early poem on the subject of...

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Hoops of steel : an anthology of dedicatory poems, being a farewell supplement to the Microcosm

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

1935

Foreword signed: Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (D. U. McGrigor Phillips). Edition limited to 300 copies. Includes the following poems by Wilfrid Gibson: Sea Swallow (pp. 55-6), The Sound of Sleat (p. 56),...

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Hoops of steel : an anthology of dedicatory poems, being a farewell supplement to the Microcosm

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

1935

Foreword signed: Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (D. U. McGrigor Phillips). Edition limited to 300 copies. Includes the following poems by Wilfrid Gibson: Sea Swallow (pp. 55-6), The Sound of Sleat (p. 56),...

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BC MS Lt 31, f. 40r: Francis Quarles's poem
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Commonplace book of English verse, prose (mainly sermons), and miscellaneous information, compiled by John Beetham

Beetham, John

c.1670-1690

As well as the verse, separately indexed, the volume contains ff.1-2: signatures; ff.3v-8v: family records, also "bullings"; ff.11-29: sermons (one by Ainsworth); ff.30-40r: arithmetical tables, remed...

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The disappeared and other poems

Pinter, Harold (1930-2008); Bevan, Tony (1951-); Sykes, Richard (1946-2019); Mason, Penny; Enitharmon Editions; Rampant Lions Press

2002

"Published in 2002 by Stephen Stuart-Smith, Enitharmon Editions..."--Title page verso. This selection of poems has been made by Harold Pinter and Stephen Stuart-Smith from Pinter's previously publish...

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