Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 2772 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of sermons and religious verse written by James Cuninghame of Barns, a Quietist preacher and Jacobite.
Item
Identifier: MS.5166
Scope and Contents
The poems and sermons have for headings the date and place of composition; among the places mentioned are Edinburgh, Stirling, Kilsyth, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
The manuscript is written in a fair hand, and some gaps have been left where the copyist could not read the original.
The original pagination, lacking pages 100-179, is faulty.
Dates:
1710-1711.
Copy of Sydney Goodsir Smith, "Skail Wind. Poems" (1941), with autograph emandations and additions by the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10692
Dates:
circa 1941.
Copy of 'The collected sporting verse of Will H Ogilvie' (London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1932); with an autograph verse, 1948, of Will H Ogilvie to A F Tschiffely on the half-title page., 1932, 1948.
Item
Identifier: MS.26028
Dates:
1932, 1948.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Poems and letters of the author and journalist William Henry ('Will H') Ogilvie (1869-1963); with photocopies of letters of his wife, Katherine, and other related papers. Included incorrectly is the typescript of "My mither's aunt and other verses" by William Ogilvie (1891-1939), Edinburgh architect.
Copy of “The fairy lovers’ days” compiled by Eleanour S Rohde (London, 1930), containing fair copies of poems by Marion Lochhead., 1952-1967.
Item
Identifier: MS.26192
Copy of ‘The golden stag’ (Oxford, 1932) by William Jeffrey, with Jeffrey's manuscript revisions., [1932, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26899
Dates:
[1932, or after.]
Copy of the Gulistān of Sa‘dī, probably of the early eighteenth century., 1258
Item
Identifier: MS.2734
Copy of 'The hound and horn in Jedforest' (Jedburgh: T S Smail, 1909), by Thomas Scott Anderson; with an autograph verse of Will H Ogilvie on the front cover., 1909.
Item
Identifier: MS.26027
Dates:
1909.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Poems and letters of the author and journalist William Henry ('Will H') Ogilvie (1869-1963); with photocopies of letters of his wife, Katherine, and other related papers. Included incorrectly is the typescript of "My mither's aunt and other verses" by William Ogilvie (1891-1939), Edinburgh architect.
Copy of the poem, 'The hauntit wud' by Robert Tannahill., [Before 1811.]
Item
Identifier: MS.10335, folio 147
Dates:
[Before 1811.]
Copy of ‘Under the Eildon tree’ (Edinburgh, 1948), by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with manuscript corrections and annotations by the author., [1948, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26124
Copy of verses, undated, by Donald Cargill, the covenanter., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10335, folio 146
Dates:
17th century.
Copy of 'Wild coal' (1963) by Kenneth White; with a letter of White, some poems in typescript, and newspaper cuttings.
File
Identifier: Acc.14442
Dates:
Circa 1963.
Copy of William Jeffrey's ‘Eagle of Coruisk’ (Oxford, 1933), with manuscript corrections by the poet., [1933, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26898
Dates:
[1933, or after.]
Copy, seventeenth century, of the satirical poem, 'La Rome ridicule' by Marc Antoine de Gerard, Sieur de Saint-Amant., [1643, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5752
Dates:
[1643, or before.]
Copy, undated, of a poem by James Beattie, 'To Mr. Alexander Ross at Lochlee', from the 'Aberdeen Journal', June 1786, inserted in ‘Lives of the Scotish poets’ (Edinburgh, 1804) by David lrving., 1786.
Item
Identifier: MS.6568 [L.C.1516]
Corrected drafts and typescripts of ten series of poems of Kenneth White.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5918
Dates:
circa 1960-circa 1963.
Corrected galley and page-proofs of ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, and related printed material., [1955, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27023
Dates:
[1955, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Poetry of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Mature Art' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’.
Corrected manuscript and printed version of poem of David Morrison, "Sterk Vision".
File
Identifier: Acc.5005
Dates:
1970.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 19 poems of Roderick Watson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7643
Dates:
circa 1966-circa 1976.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 190 poems of Duncan Glen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8403
Dates:
1972-1982.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and a play of David Morrison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10096
Dates:
1987-1988.
Corrected manuscript of a poem of George MacDonald, "Christmas 1876".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7067
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.