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James Woodhouse, shoemaker and poet. Etching, 1765.

Amusing Productions present Lighthouse poets : Tuesday 27th July 1992, 7.30 pm : readings by Tomm Gunn, John Heath-Stubbs, Maureen Duffy, Jeremy Reed, Clive Wilmer introduced by Brenda Dean / London Lighthouse.

John Dryden, Samuel Garth, John Vanbrugh, and Richard Steele. Mezzotint by J. Simon after Sir G. Kneller.

Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

An eye; according to Lavater, belonging to a German poet. Drawing, c. 1794.

John Dryden: portrait. Drawing, c. 1793.

King James I and VI, with four Scottish writers: Robert Burns, John (?) Home, Allan Ramsay, and James Beattie. Engraving.

Poets: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Five men: Robert Burns, Richard Baxter, Francis Bacon, Judge Blackstone, and James Beattie. Engraving, 1811.

Four poets: Thomas Campbell, George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.

More than 200 photographs : colour 35mm transparencies in 4 wooden slide cabinets and one Kodak paper box ; containers approximately 40 x 30 x 40 cm

Statues and personalia of eminent persons in Europe. Photographs by H. Avery.

<p>Pat Barker's brilliant antiwar novel, Regeneration, was widely hailed as a masterpiece and was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of 1992. Now Pat Barker returns to the World War I era with The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize for 1993.</p>

The eye in the door / Pat Barker.

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

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Four poets: Thomas Campbell, George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.

Statues and personalia of eminent persons in Europe. Photographs by H. Avery.

The eye in the door / Pat Barker.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

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Poets

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Catalogue

Four poets: Thomas Campbell, George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.

Statues and personalia of eminent persons in Europe. Photographs by H. Avery.

The eye in the door / Pat Barker.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

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