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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:

‘Fair assembly. A Poem in the Royal Stanza’ by Allan Ramsay, and in his autograph.

 Item
Identifier: MS.567
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains six stanzas and a few notes additional to those published in Allan Ramsay's ‘Poems’, volume ii, page 195.

Dates: [?1723.]

Fair copies by Frances A M Russell, of her own poems.

 File
Identifier: MS.15939
Scope and Contents

Many of the poems refer to Frances Russell’s own family and events at Minto.

The poems are followed (folio 83) by a description of Russell’s last hours.

Dates: 1835-1896.

Fair copy of 'Palinurus' by William Jeffrey., 1946.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26897
Scope and Contents

The poem is not in William Jeffrey's hand, but has corrections by him.

Dates: 1946.

Fair manuscript copies of two poems by George Campbell Hay: `The Sun Over Athens` and `Jebel and the Dayspring`. Both are signed by the poet.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.13211
Scope and Contents

These two poems were written out and signed by George Campbell Hay, and given as a gift to a nurse who attended him during one of his periods of mental illness in the 1940s.

Dates: ? 1947.

Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16

"First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50700
Scope and Contents The "First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns is the earliest collected work written by the poet. Written before he achieved national status following the publication of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' (1786), Burns himself explained the need to create the volume, hoping that after his death it would fall into the hands of someone who would appreciate their value.The "First Commonplace Book" contains some of Burns's earliest surviving work and contains examples of Burns's...
Dates: 1783-1785.

First edition of "A Book of Highland Minstrelsy" (1846), by Eliza Ogilvy.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14428
Scope and Contents

Includes two handwritten poems "Robin Burnt-Breast" and "The Alabama".

Dates: 1846.