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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:

Literary version of Thomas Stewart Traill's tour in Spain of 1814., 1814.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19389
Scope and Contents

The account commences with the voyage from Falmouth to Corunna, and then to Cadiz and Gibraltar, and then proceeds to a more detailed version of Thomas Stewart Traill’s visits to Malaga, Granada, and Ronda as described in MS 19388. Before returning to Britain Traill visited Tangiers in Africa and Seville. (Folio 1.) With related papers including passports, Spanish romantic poetry, and two letters of 1814 of William Kirkpatrick, the American Resident in Malaga. (Folio 353.)

Dates: 1814.

Literary work and travel journals of Charles Murray., 1888-1941, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27256-27264
Scope and Contents

Charles Murray's literary output was almost entirely poetic, and he was widely known as 'Hamewith', the title of his most popular collection, first published in 1900. These papers reflect both his literary work and his early travels in South Africa.

Dates: 1888-1941, undated.

Loose leaf notebook of Ruthven Todd., 1947-1948.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26864
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains notes of poems with the names of the magazines to which they were submitted for publication (folio 1), addresses, fragments of poems and miscellaneous notes (folio 50).

Dates: 1947-1948.

Love poems; and receipts for feu duty., 17th century-1786.

 File
Identifier: MS.2819
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Love poems, seventeenth century, to Celia, Cynthia, etc. (folio 1);

(ii) Receipts for feu duty for Balmore from James Gibb, 1684-1786, presumably father and son; in the earlier receipts Gibb is designated portioner of Balmore (folio 17).

Dates: 17th century-1786.

Magazine, poetry, and newspaper cutting relating to quizzes., 2003-2004.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/512
Scope and Contents

File includes a copy of 'Nameverse' poetry by Timothy Robey, 'IQuiz' magazine, and 'Times' article on Mastermind.

Dates: 2003-2004.

Manuscript and corrected proofs of ‘Mountain songs’ by William Jeffrey., [1928, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.27480
Scope and Contents

In the text first sent to the printer (folio 1), some of the poems are in William Jeffrey's hand and others are printed versions. The manuscripts of two poems, which were added later, follow the galley-proofs (folio 56).

Dates: [1928, or before.]

Manuscript and corrected typescripts of various versions of 'Arran Burn' by Robert McLellan., 1962-1970.

 File
Identifier: MS.26433
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Corrected typescripts of 'Arran Burn', 1962 (folio 1). This is not the poem published under that title. (ii) Manuscript and corrected typescripts of 'Island Burn', 1965-1970 (folio 6). Under the title 'Arran Burn', this was commissioned by the BBC, and first produced on television in 1965.

Dates: 1962-1970.

Manuscript and printed verses of William Christie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8358
Scope and Contents

Concerning the Mauricewood Pit disaster.

Dates: 1889.

Manuscript and typescript copies of poems of Gerald Wooley Watson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10579
Scope and Contents

With notes by the author.

Dates: 1953-1965 and undated.

Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems by Edwin Muir., 1942-1959, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19653
Scope and Contents

The single poems are arranged in the order in which they appear in Edwin Muir's ‘Collected poems’, 1963. They are followed (folio 80) by 'A Righteous Man' and "The Breaking' (published in the ‘Times Literary Supplement’, 21 December 1979, page 158), ‘The Christmas' (from ‘One foot in eden’, 1956), and pages containing more than one poem and drafts of unidentified works. Finally there is the corrected typescript of 'The Return', a verse drama on the return of Odysseus (folio 99).

Dates: 1942-1959, undated.

Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems of Ruthven Todd., 1925-1978, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26830-26832
Scope and Contents

Some of the papers are annotated with the place of publication.

Dates: 1925-1978, undated.