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:
Drafts of poems of Agnes Ethel Mackay., 1940-1945.
File
Identifier: MS.26893
Scope and Contents
A few were composed in the 1930s and copied out again here.
Dates:
1940-1945.
Drafts of Robert Garioch Sutherland's poems 'The Percipient Swan' and 'The Canny Hen'., 1960, [1983, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26674, folios 11-16
Scope and Contents
'The Percipient Swan' is written on a concert programme of 1960 (folio 11).
Dates:
1960, [1983, or before.]
Drafts of song texts, translations and other notes relating to individual chapters of "The Life and Works of John MacDonald (Iain Lom)", ca. 1945 or earlier
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13865/2-9
Dates:
ca. 1945 or earlier
Drafts, undated, of Robert Garioch Sutherland's translation of Belli's sonnet 55., [1983, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26674, folios 21-25
Dates:
[1983, or before.]
Dramatic works, short stories and poetry of Agnes Mure Mackenzie., [Circa 1919-before 1956.]
Series
Identifier: MSS.9188-9193
Dates:
[Circa 1919-before 1956.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
Dugald S MacColl, "Newdigate Prize Poem. The Fall of Carthage", with letter and sketch by the author.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5763
Dates:
1882.
Duplicate of Mf.Sec.MSS.505: Microfilm of letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars., [?1617-?1668.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.506
Duplicated memorial volume of verses and prose pieces of Jim MacKniven, a schoolboy killed in the Clydebank Blitz.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10822
Scope and Contents
Includes introductory poem by Naomi Mitchison.
Dates:
1942.
Early 16th-century manuscript of the allegorical poem 'Le Chevalier délibéré' by Olivier de la Marche, composed in 1483.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is listed with eleven others in 'Etude biographique, littéraire et bibliographique sur Olivier de la Marche' by Henri Stein. It is also included in La Marche, Olivier de. 'Le Chevalier Deliberé (The Resolute Knight) ed. by Carleton W. Carroll, 1999. There are ten miniatures, each in a pillared frame. The subjects are the author writing his work (folio 1), the knight setting out on his quest (folio 3), the knight approaching the hermit (folio 5 verso), the hermit...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Early 16th-century manuscript of 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland' by Andrew Wyntoun, with part of the anonymous 'Brevis Cronica' appended.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.4
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle', of Andrew Wyntoun. The work is a vernacular history of Scotland and the world in the form of a metrical poem. In Amours' edition, this manuscript is referred to as E2, or the Second Edinburgh Manuscript. Borland, Amours, and Laing have dated the manuscript to the early 16th century.Amours notes that the manuscript is almost complete with only a few folios wanting...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Early draft of 'On Glaister's Hill' by William Jeffrey., ?1945.
Item
Identifier: MS.26896
Scope and Contents
A song, 'We'll hae laen sae lang', is written inside the back cover.
Dates:
?1945.
Early draft of part ii of the poem 'Sea Talk' by George Bruce, together with a fair copy of the whole poem., [1944, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8788
Dates:
[1944, or before.]
"Earth, Water, Fire and Heir", a manuscript book of poems by Alan G Dick, Peter Rae and Jim Masson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12626
Dates:
1969.
Editorial correspondence and papers concerning the Scottish literary and cultural magazine "Cencrastus".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11509
Dates:
1989-1995.
Editorial papers of "Gairm" magazine and Gairm Publications, Glasgow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11028
Dates:
1991-1993.
Editorial papers of `Printed, spoken`, a little poetry magazine edited by Richard Price, comprising mainly correspondence and typescripts of poems.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13246
Scope and Contents
Painted, spoken is a little poetry magazine founded and edited by Richard Price. The magazine is independently funded and is essentially in the modernist tradition, combining a range of Scottish contemporary writing with English experimental poetry. Price does not accept unsolicited submissions, preferring to assemble the content from poets he already knows or has come into contact with. This policy means that the editorial papers are particularly rich in correspondence with poets, and...
Dates:
2000-2010.
Editorial papers of Robin Fulton concerning 'Lines Review'., 1967-1970.
File
Identifier: MS.27498
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to Robin Fulton, 1968-1969 (folio 1); (ii) Corrected galley proofs of numbers 25-27, 1967-1968 (folio 5). The order of contents differs from that in the published version, and galleys 5-10 of number 26 are missing. (iii) Typescript, with editorial deletions, of 'Transparencies', a sequence of poems by Iain Crichton Smith, published in number 29, June 1969 (folio 55); (iv) Drawings by Pete Morgan, published in number 32, March 1970 (folio 68).
Dates:
1967-1970.
Editorial work of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1938-[circa 1975], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27077-27082
Dates:
1938-[circa 1975], undated.
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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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Broadcasts and speeches of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Educational, literary, cultural and miscellaneous papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15508-15518
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.
Eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13021
Scope and Contents
Contains diary entries, draft letters and literary notes and drafts of stories, poems, plays and the novel "Old Men in Love"; with six corrected and annotated typescripts of "Fleck", a play.
Dates:
1973-2008.
Eight letters, 1818-1835, of John Gait to various correspondents, with a draft agreement between Gait and Richard Bentley, 1832, a holograph poem, 'Music', 1834, and three leaves of manuscript of the stories 'A Rich Man' and 'Tribulations of Reverend Conal Kilmun'., 1818-1835.
File
Identifier: MS.9818, folios 156-171
Dates:
1818-1835.
Eight letters to David Morrison.
File
Identifier: Acc.13341
Scope and Contents
Eight letters, 1984-2010, to David Morrison; correspondents include Alasdair Gray, Norman MacCaig and John Manson. With manuscript drafts of two poems by David Morrison.
Dates:
1984-2010.
Eighty-four letters and cards of Edwin Morgan to Richard Price; with manuscript of unpublished poem, "The Ropemaker`s Bride".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13384
Scope and Contents
The collection records the affectionate last years of a stimulating literary relationship between Edwin Morgan and the younger, ‘Informationist’ poet, Richard Price. They first met in the 1980s when Price, then a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, went to visit Morgan. Both technophiles and both love poets, they struck up a lasting friendship, corresponding from then until the mid 2000s. This collection marks the last period of their correspondence, covering 2003-2006 (for earlier...
Dates:
2003-2006.