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Brotherton Collection10
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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection4
Herbert Read Collection2
South Bank Show Production Archive1

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poetry16
english poetry3
letter writing3
family2
health2
love2
allegory1
american poetry1
bereavement1
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Genoa, Italy2
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Richmond, United Kingdom1

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Brett-Smith, H F B3
Browning, Robert (1812-1889)3
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)3
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)3
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-18222
Astley, Neil1
Beeching, Jack1
Brett-Smith, H. F. B1
Browning, Robert1
Cowden Clarke, Charles1

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Aspects of love

Beeching, Jack

1950

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Poems of the love of England

Draper, William Henry (1855-1933)

1914

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The allegory of love : a study in medieval tradition

Lewis, C S (1898-1963)

1958

First published 1936.

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Cecil and Mary, or, Phases of life and love

Jackson, Joseph Edward

1858

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Shakespeare's treatment of love & marriage and other essays

Herford, C H (1853-1931)

1921

"First published in 1921." Thirty-two pages of advertisements at the end.

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Two notebooks for 'Love out-lasts Life' by Mary Cowden Clarke

1879

Two small notebooks containing notes and drafts towards the poem 'Love out-lasts Life' by Mary Cowden Clarke, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 1879.

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Out of the earth I sing : poetry and songs of primitive peoples of the world

Lewis, Richard (1935-)

[1968]

A collection of poems from primitive peoples throughout the world on such themes as love, nature, and death. Illustrated with photographs of the art of these peoples.

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Staying alive : real poems for unreal times

Astley, Neil

2003

Body and soul -- Roads -- Dead or alive -- Bittersweet -- Growing up -- Man and beast -- In and out of love -- My people -- War and peace -- Disappearing acts -- Me, the earth, the universe -- The art...

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Interview with Alan Bennett

2007

Interview with Alan Bennett about WH Auden's relationship with the north of England, the difficulty of his work, using Auden in The History Boys, Auden's love poems, Bennett's play The Old Country, Au...

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MS Poems by MCC volume 1 of 2

1858-1876

Manuscript poems by Mary Cowden Clarke in a bound volume with dark green leather cover, gold decorative details and gilt page edges. Written in her husband Charles Cowden Clarke's hand. Inscribed '(1s...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Vincent

1816-1847

Forty eight handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, containing references to Hunt's health and living arrangements, music, travel by sea to Italy via an extended stay in Plymo...

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Dalby, John Watson to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1870-1872

Two handwritten letters from the poet and editor John Watson Dalby to Charles Cowden Clarke, dated 27 August 1870 and 19 February 1872. The former describes the ill health of Ralph (likely the husband...

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