Siegfried Sassoon on Armistice Day
The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the First World War are familiar from often-reproduced images. Photographs taken in London and other cities show […]
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Paul Claudel and Audrey Parr
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall displays […]
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The J. H. Prynne Papers
A long-term aim at the University Library is to ensure that the manuscript holdings adequately represent a group of poets so closely associated with the […]
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Thom Gunn revived and remembered, recorded
On 26 October Clive Wilmer launched his Faber edition of the Selected Poems of Thom Gunn in the University Library with a talk, refreshments and […]
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New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’
The friendship formed by the poet Siegfried Sassoon with the literary hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell was among the most formative of his life. Begun by correspondence […]
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Thom Gunn revived and remembered
On Thursday 26 October the University Library is offering a chance to join poet Clive Wilmer at the launch of his Faber edition of the […]
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A chance discovery: Guest post by Jason Scott-Warren
One of the newest arrivals in the University Library’s Rare Books department was a chance find on Ebay. The History of Our B. Lady of […]
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Changing : the launch
On Thursday 11 May at 5.30 p.m., in the Milstein Seminar Rooms in Cambridge University Library, the poet Richard Berengarten will give a reading and […]
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The ‘Album amicorum’ of Abraham Ortelius
The latest addition to the Cambridge Digital Library is the Album amicorum of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). The Album amicorum – literally ‘book of friends’ – […]
Continue reading »Robert Bloomfield, ‘the first of rural bards’
The poet Robert Bloomfield, author of The farmer’s boy, was born in Suffolk two hundred and fifty years ago, in December 1766. Of humble parentage, […]
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