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:
Illustrated comments on the Housing Act, 1972 (Scotland), by Lachlan M Dinwoodie.
File
Identifier: Acc.5920
Scope and Contents
With illustrated verses, 1975, of Dinwoodie, "The Big Bell of Bow".
Dates:
1972, 1975.
Illustrated manuscript on palm leaves of a poem ‘Śrῑ - liṅgarāja - devasya prāsādāni’ by Madhusudana Miśra., [Circa 1925.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19617
Dates:
[Circa 1925.]
Imitations of Ossian by Baron Edmund von Harold, in German and English, followed by 'Britania, a poem', in English, in an album dedicated to Queen Charlotte., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3409
'Impavidi Progrediamur' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, intended as the second volume of 'Mature Art'., 1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27025
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts, undated (folio 1); (ii) Incomplete corrected typescript, 1956 (folio 56). The different sections of the poem (which incorporates poems already published in ‘Lucky poet’ (London, 1943), and elsewhere, as well as new material) are linked by passages of prose.
Dates:
1956, 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’.
Incomplete manuscript, "A Gypsy Ballad", translated by George Borrow., 1841, or before.
Item
Identifier: MS.42043
Scope and Contents
The title of the manuscript is taken from the spine of the portfolio in which it is held. The manuscript has a title page, a 20th century addition included when the manuscript was bound in paper covers : "A Gypsy ballad. Translated by George Borrow. Original manuscript".Borrow included a version of this translation of an original Gitano ballad in his work on the Gypsies of Spain, "The Zincali". The translation, "Rhymes of the Gitanos", was published in parallel with the original,...
Dates:
1841, or before.
Incomplete manuscript entitled 'Mature Art' Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., 1937.
Item
Identifier: MS.27019
Scope and Contents
The author's note (folio 2) describes it as one of the shorter incidental lyrics in his unpublished 'Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn'.
Dates:
1937.
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’.
Incomplete typescript of ‘Earth’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8602
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of ‘Earth’, and manuscript of ‘Quest’, by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of ‘Earth’ by William Soutar.
Incomplete typescript of 'Impavidi Progrediamur’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., 1956.
Item
Identifier: MS.27026
Scope and Contents
This is the carbon copy of MS.27025, folios 56-206, but it includes a number of pages missing from that copy.
Dates:
1956.
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’.
Incomplete typescript of the section ’Lyrics in Scots’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8592
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of the section ’Lyrics in Scots’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
Incomplete typescript of the section ‘Theme and variation’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8596
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of the section ‘Theme and Variation’ of ‘Collected Poems’ by William Soutar.
Inscribed copy of Jessie Cormack, "The Spell".
File
Identifier: Acc.9282
Scope and Contents
with additional poems in typescript.
Dates:
1961.
Inscribed copy of Stewart Conn, "Thunder in the Air: Poems" (1967).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11181
Scope and Contents
Includes letter of Conn to Alexander Reid, on literary matters.
Dates:
1967.
Inscribed copy of "The Tree" (Dunfermline, 1977), by Tom Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11586
Scope and Contents
Includes three related letters of Tom Scott to John Stewart Collis, 1978.
Dates:
1977-1978.
Inscribed copy of William A Younger, "Madonna and Other Poems" (1935).
File
Identifier: Acc.8912
Scope and Contents
With two letters of Younger to Dennis and Joan Wheatley.
Dates:
1935 and undated.
`Inscriptiones funebres virorum doctrina, probitate, virtute, clarorum, qui hoc aevo decessere`, compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being a collection of funerary inscriptions and elegies of Scots, some composed by Sibbald himself, with a few other poems.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.14
Dates:
Circa 1715.
Interleaved copy of Robert Estienne`s edition of Juvenal and Persius (Paris, 1544), with manuscript notes on the interleaved sheets and in the margins of the printed pages.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.13
Scope and Contents
The notes are in a 17th-century hand and consist of exegetical material, mostly of a fairly elementary nature. The words in the text on which there are notes are underlined. There is no indication of the identity of the annotator.
Dates:
17th century.
Irish prose and verse miscellany entitled "Bolg an tslathair", written by Patrick O'Daly, Glanure., ca. mid-19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.13
Scope and Contents
A collection of verse and prose written by Patrick O'Daly (Pádraig Ó Dalaigh), Glanure, Co. Cork, around the middle of the 19th century.
Dates:
ca. mid-19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collections of Gaelic tales, folklore and proverbs, mainly written by John Dewar; material relating to folklore in general; papers concerning Highland dress; and several volumes relating to Irish language and folklore.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Italian manuscript of some of the 'Capitoli' and Sonnets, selections from 'Orlando Innamorato', and the 'Carmina', by Francesco Berni., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2812
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Jacobite papers deriving from W B Blaikie`s collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6849
Scope and Contents
Including:
manuscript draft report, circa 1745, on Sir John Cope`s military operations
manuscript verses, 1745, on Gladsmuir
"A Chronological Table of Military Operations in Great Britain, 1745-1746".
Dates:
circa 1745-1746.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.