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 and printed copies of poems, possibly of Henry Maxwell Inglis of Loganbank.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7438
Dates:
1855-1872 and undated.
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 copies by William H Hamilton of his own poems, several of which appear in his published collections, ‘Gauldry and other verses’ and ‘The desire of the moth’., [?1902-?1919.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19619-19620
Fair copy manuscript of poem, 'Na Cnocain's na Bliadhnachan', by George Campbell Hay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13807
Dates:
? 1970.
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.
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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
Dates:
1509-19th century.
File box, '16. Poems. Artists lunch and Tayside. Katrina Howse. Exhib proposal. The Bruce burning. The Borders'., 1996-1999.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 26(1)-(6)
Scope and Contents
The box is covered in tartan.
Dates:
1996-1999.
File box, '25. Ian Stephen. Letters and publications'., 1993-1997.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 35(1)-(4)
Scope and Contents
The box is covered in tartan.
Dates:
1993-1997.
File containing correspondence and poems sent to Janet Paisley by Gerry Cambridge., 1992.
File
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 3(9)
Dates:
1992.
File containing typescripts of poems by Janet Paisley used by her for a literary event at Craigroyston Primary School., 2010.
File
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(5)
Dates:
2010.
File containing typescripts, some annotated, of the poem 'Watter', by Janet Paisley; with a draft of the script for a dramatised documentary 'Redding 1923' , by Adam Stafford, and a photocopy of the story board for the same., 2011.
File
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(8)
Dates:
2011.
File marked 'Old negatives', containing various manuscripts of poetry and prose., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9417/90
File, 'The Attic Archive. Marshall Anderson Poems'., 1996.
File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 26(1)
File, 'The Attic Archive. Taigh Cheasabhagh, 1995-1998', containing postcards, newsletters, leaflets, poetry and correspondence concerning the Taigh Cheasabhagh museum and arts centre., 1995-1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 19(5)
"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.
First lines of the "Queen's wake" by James Hogg, inscribed to John and Anne Phillips., 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.3649, folio 216
Dates:
1832.
Five letters and two poems to members of the McCracken family.
File
Identifier: Acc.6054
Dates:
1761-1841.
Floppy disk, 'The Attic Archive. Disk A, Marshall Anderson, correspondence, poems [and] articles'., Circa 1998.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 22(7)
Dates:
Circa 1998.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, mostly of Marshall Anderson, from the Attic Archive, Dundee.
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File box, '12. Notebooks. Floppy disks. Zip disk. Phone bills.'
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Born-digital records of the Attic Archive.
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Floppy disks containing data relating to the The Attic Archive.
`Flótte mannlegs lífs eður dauðadans`: a translation into Icelandic verse of a work written in Danish by Thomas Lauritzson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.13
Dates:
18th century.
Forty-six letters to Sir Walter Scott from various correspondents, with three poems and three letters concerning him., 1830-1832.
File
Identifier: MS.5317 (vii), folios 140-244