Poetry – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Paul Claudel and Audrey Parr

Posted on 23 July 2018 by John Wells

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 […]

Archives, Exhibitions, French, Manuscripts, Poetry, Special Collections

The J. H. Prynne Papers

Posted on 11 May 2018 by John Wells

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 […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions

Thom Gunn revived and remembered, recorded

Posted on 14 December 2017 by John Wells

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 […]

Events, Poetry

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New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’

Posted on 4 December 2017 by John Wells

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 […]

Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions

Thom Gunn revived and remembered

Posted on 19 October 2017 by John Wells

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 […]

Events, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry

A chance discovery: Guest post by Jason Scott-Warren

Posted on 18 October 2017 by Special Collections

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 […]

Christian Works, Poetry, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, women

Changing : the launch

Posted on 8 April 2017 by John Wells

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 […]

Events, Poetry

The ‘Album amicorum’ of Abraham Ortelius

Posted on 4 March 2017 by James Freeman

The latest addition to the Cambridge Digital Library is the Album amicorum of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). The Album amicorum – literally ‘book of friends’ – […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Pembroke College, Poetry, Science

Robert Bloomfield, ‘the first of rural bards’

Posted on 12 December 2016 by John Wells

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, […]

Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry, Rare Books

Poems and Ballads at 150

Posted on 20 July 2016 by Special Collections

This summer marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads (1866) which appalled Victorian readers with its anti-authoritarianism, republicanism […]

Anniversaries, Events, Exhibitions, Poetry

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