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Total number of records: 382

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Brotherton Collection227
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Liddle Collection29
Leeds Poetry23
Herbert Read Collection13
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Quaker Collection7
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
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war poetry, english65
christian poetry, english56
english poetry54
world war, 1914-191845
dialect poetry, english35
letters35
religious poetry, english35
political poetry, english33
nigerian poetry (english)28
african theatre26

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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)12
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)10
Halliday, Wilfrid J8
Yorkshire Dialect Society8
Blake, William, 1757-18275
Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)5
Everett, James (1784-1872)5
Habershon, M H5
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)5
Umpleby, Arthur Stanley5

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Divine and moral songs for children

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

1841

Includes index.

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A la recherche du temps perdu

Raine, Craig

2000

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Night thoughts : or, The complaint and the consolation

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Blake, William (1757-1827); Essick, Robert N; La Belle, Jenijoy

1975

Facsimile reprint of the 1797 ed. published by R. Edwards, London, under title: The complaint, and the consolation.

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The changed cross, and other religious poems

Randolph, Anson D F; Wright, Lucy Pauline

[1868?]

"As the poems are mainly waifs, gathered from magazines and newspapers, it has not been possible, except in a few instances, to ascertain the names of the writers."--Preface. National Union Catalogu...

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Modern poetry from Africa

Moore, Gerald (1924-); Beier, Ulli

1963

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A Cleveland anthology : dialect poems from Cleveland and the North Yorkshire moors

Cowley, Bill; Yorkshire Dialect Society

[ca.1963]

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Samarkand and other markets I have known

Soyinka, Wole

2002

Ah, Demosthenes! -- Pens for Hire -- Hours Lost, Hours Stolen -- Business Lunch -- The Bag Lady -- Doctored Vision -- Some Deaths are Worlds Apart -- Exit Left, Monster, Victim in Pursuit (Death of a ...

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