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:
Four anonymous Jacobite poems, of which three concern Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
File
Identifier: Acc.9202
Dates:
1745.
Four audio cassettes containing recordings of poetry readings and a lecture by Gavin Ewart.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7667/1-4
Dates:
1980.
Four letters, 1823 and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838 and undated, of Grace Welsh to Isabella McTurk.
File
Identifier: Acc.12039
Scope and Contents
Includes:
1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;
2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.
Dates:
1823-1838.
Four letters, [1823], and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838, and undated, of Grace Welsh, to Isabella McTurk, mainly concerning personal matters.
File
Identifier: Dep.295- is now Acc.12039.
Scope and Contents
Includes:
1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;
2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.
Dates:
[1823]-1838, and undated.
Four letters, 1874-1884, of Thomas Stevenson to Peter G Tait, with one, 1886, to Mrs Tait.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8378
Scope and Contents
Includes:
sonnets, 1858, of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, sent to Mrs Tait.
two documents, undated, concerning H S Reid, one being the text of the dedication of a chapel.
Dates:
1858-1886.
Four letters between Derek Bowman and Robert Nye, including four poems., 1971-1973.
File
Identifier: Acc.6294/5
Four letters of Allan Cunningham.
File
Identifier: Acc.8601
Scope and Contents
One letter concerns a bust of John Keats.
With a poem, 1843, of James Montgomery, "The Dying Girl`s Request".
Dates:
1829-1838 and undated.
Four letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Nataly Nesterenko; with two possibly unpublished poems of W S Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13263
Scope and Contents
Nataly Nesterenko was married to William Featherston, a Canadian artist, and the couple were friends of W S and Nessie Graham. The friendship survived the Featherston`s divorce and the letters show the Graham`s concern for Nataly Nesterenko during a difficult period in her life. The two typescript poems are untitled, but the first lines are ...
Dates:
1972-1979.
Four poems by Forbes Macgregor., Circa 1930-1968.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4653/8
Scope and Contents
Contains: The ballad of Mary Gibb and the Heriot Witches (manuscript, 1964); Jehu (manuscript); Hogmanay: a poem (typescript with manuscipt of 'The legend'); Kittlenakit hop.
Dates:
Circa 1930-1968.
Four poems of Felicia Hemans one forming part of a letter to Miss Maynard, Bristol.
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Identifier: Acc.13424
Dates:
1813-1826
Four typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "The Cleansing of the Knife", "A Matter of Behaviour", "Conversation with an Improbable Future" and "Statement of an Imaginary Situation".
File
Identifier: Acc.10657
Dates:
1941 and undated.
Fragment of the border ballad 'Outlaw Murray'.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14137
Scope and Contents
In Sir Walter Scott's hand and collected for Scott's 'The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' with variations from teh published version.
Dates:
Circa 1802.
Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts of individual poems in and sections of 'Mature Art' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., 1938, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27021
Scope and Contents
Included are typescripts (folios 52-74) closely related to ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ but addressed to the 16th-century Italian poet, Teofilo Folengo.
Dates:
1938, 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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Poetry of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Mature Art' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’.
Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [?1937-?1938.]
File
Identifier: MS.27024
Scope and Contents
The papers include two versions of the author's preface (folios 8-25) and several longer sections of the poem (folios 94-187).
Dates:
[?1937-?1938.]
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’.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
Scope and Contents
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth., 1750, 1755.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2150-2156
Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth, volume I, titled 'Collectanea seu Παρέκβολαι ad Σύλλογην fragmentorum poætarum Græcorum illustrandam.', [?1750-?1755.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2151
Fragments of the Kilbride collection, in Gaelic, consisting of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille, part of a tale of Caithréim Conghail Cláiringhnigh, and a contract between Duncan MacDougall and his servitor.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.31
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of three fragments from the Kilbride collection, but two of these (folios 1-5, Colum-cille poems, and folio 8, a MacDougall contract) are of very great independent value.Folios 1-5 (Mackechnie’s ‘A’, ‘B’).These fragments, ?15th century, contain an orderly sequence of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille. The hand is that which inscribes the Colum-cille poem “Aingeal Dé dom dhín” on the fly leaf of British Library MS. Egerton 2899...
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
Fragments of the manuscript of ‘The Lusiad’, a translation by William Mickle of Camoëns' epic, first published in 1776; with a few papers concerning the publication., [1776, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.15935
Dates:
[1776, or before.]
Fragments of verse by Robert Louis Stevenson, addressed to his wife, Fanny Stevenson, titled, 'What can I wish, what can I promise, dear', with notes by Everard Meynell., 1887.
Item
Identifier: MS.3790
Framed copy of an anonymous poem given by George Campbell Hay to his mother.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11015
Dates:
circa 1910.
Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition ten, containing press cuttings, correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts., 1970-1971, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/28
Scope and Contents
Containing:(i) Press cutting of an article by Maurice Sweeney in Hibernia, 3 March- 1971 [cat. no.73] and press cutting from The Irish Press, 3 Apr 1971 [cat. no.74](ii) Press cutting from The Irish Times, 8 May 1971 [cat. no.75](iii) Letter from Caitlin Maude, January 1971 [cat. no.78](iv) Letter of Máirtin Ó Diréain, 27 September 1970, and manuscript of poem 'Machnamh an Mhargaigh', by Máirtin Ó Diréain [cat. no.79](v) Manuscript...
Dates:
1970-1971, undated.
Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition three, containing press cuttings, correspondence and typescripts., 1967-1968.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/6
Scope and Contents
Containing:(i) Press cutting of an article by 'Quidnunc' in The Irish Times' 22 November 1967 [cat no.17].(ii) Three letters of Raoul Hausmann, 24 September 1967, 28 February 1968 and 18 March 1968 [cat no.20].(iii) Signed typescript of poem 'For Hayden Murphy', by Patrick Kavanagh, also containing a letter signed by his doctor, Richard Riordan, and his friend Edward McGuire. Possibly the poet's last work [cat.no.21](iv) Typescript of poem...
Dates:
1967-1968.