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1. Add MS 40887

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Add MS 40887
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Scope & Content:
Vol. 1. "The Unhappy Revenge": a play described. in a note (f. i) as a "Tragedy written by Algernon Charles Swinburne soon after he went to Eton (April 1849), at about 13 years old," and apparently referred to by him in a letter to Churton Collins, 11 Dec. 1876 (Gosse and Wise, Letters of A. C. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1849
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 40887-40888

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Add MS 40887-40888
Title:
EARLY COMPOSITIONS of Algernon Charles Swinburne, written during his residence at Eton and Oxford
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Two volumes. Bequeathed by Miss Isabel Swinburne, sister of the poet, along with Add. MSS. 39216, 39217.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
[1844-1861]
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 40888

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Add MS 40888
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Scope & Content:
Vol. II. Poetry of the Oxford period (1856-1860), viz. (1) "The Temple of Janus": a poem in heroic couplets, submitted for the Newdigate Prize in 1857. See Lafourcade, ii, pp. 21-27 (extracts printed, p. 209). Watermark, 1852. f. 1;- (12) Translation from Dante, Paradiso, iii, ll. 97-123, ac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1856-1860
Extent:
1 item