People
Individuals playing a role in at least one manuscript miscellany or poem
Displaying 457–480 people out of 489 total
George Weller
- 1710
- 1778
Lawyer and Recorder of Queenborough; Tonbridge School alumnus with a family connection to Jane Austen; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany which features at least three of his own poems.
Dillon Wentworth
- 1637
- 1685
Poet; known for his blank verse translation of Horace's Ars Poetica (1680) and his Essay on Translated Verse (1684), which was the first essay to enunciate the principles of poetic diction.
Sarah Wesley
- 1726
- 1822
Robert Wharton
Likely a relative of A.T.W.’s, whose poems “To Richard Wharton,” “Coronation ode for Sir James Hall bart:,” “Epitaph written by a gentleman for himself,” and “By a clergyman at the request of a lady who had asked him for a receipt for a fine lady” feature in her manuscript verse miscellany.
Azarias Williams
Emigrated from Sheffield, Yorkshire to New York in 1785 at the age of 20; kept a verse miscellany in the first few years in America, elaborately signing and precisely dating most of the items; married Sarah (Sally) Firman Warner in Dec. 1788 and became a prosperous merchant first in New York and then in Vermont.
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
- 1708
- 1759
Writer and diplomatist; Whig; known as a poet for his political satire.
James Willins
- 1768
- 1851
Coteries | The Marsh-Blofeld coterie |
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Clergyman; author of “On a little Bird caught on board at Sea” and “An imitation of Catullus,” which appear in William Heath Marsh’s manuscript verse miscellany.
Sarah Wills
Young compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany that serves as a schoolbook.
Sarah Morris Wilmot
- 1724
- 1793
Coterie poet; affiliate of the Garrick and Bluestocking circles; the featured author of the first volume of her daughter Elizabeth Sarah Wilmot Seton’s manuscript verse miscellany.
Cuthbert Wilson
Author of an occasional poem, “To my Friend the Reverend Mr. Barrett with a Paper Book,” which begins Barrett’s manuscript verse miscellany, Beinecke Osborn c193.
John Wolcot
- c1738
- 1819
Poet and satirist; known for anti-royalist and celebrity satires; very popular with miscellany compilers.
Eliza Woolley
Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of love poetry.
Anne Woolfe
Compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany of witty verse.
William Wordsworth
- 1770
- 1850
Poet; founder of the Romantic movement in England with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a fellow member of the Lake Poets.
William Worth
- 1677
- 1742
Church of England clergyman and classical scholar; primary compiler of and major author in Beinecke Osborn c110, an English and Latin manuscript verse miscellany.
Daniel Wray
- 1701
- 1783
Coteries | Daniel Wray circle, and Yorke-Grey coterie |
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Antiquary; friend of Philip Yorke and contributor to the Athenian Letters under the signature “W.”
J. Wright
Compiler of a mixed, probably Jacobite manuscript verse miscellany apparently owned and used by William Bromley shortly after its composition.