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:
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems of Ruthven Todd., 1925-1962.
File
Identifier: MS.26830
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems of Ruthven Todd., 1963-1973.
File
Identifier: MS.26831
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems of William Sydney Graham., 1943-1968, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26019
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Typescripts of nine poems with manuscript notes by William Sydney Graham for a poetry reading, 1943 (folio l);
(ii) Manuscript of 'Gigha', 1945 (folio lO);
(iii) Excerpts, 1949, undated, from 'The Nightfishing', with an explanatory letter, 1956 (folio ll);
(iv) Drafts and final versions of part of 'The Nightfishing' and 'Seven Letters', 1953, undated (folio 31);
(v) Drafts and final versions of 'Malcolm Mooney's Land' and other poems, 1960, 1965-1966, with...
Dates:
1943-1968, undated.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of single poems and small collections of poems by various poets.
File
Identifier: MS.26800
Dates:
[Circa 1948]-1973, undated.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs of poems 'That Lonely Shoe Lying on the Road' and 'Standing in the Field'., 1993-1994.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/150
Manuscript and typescript drafts of a poem sequence of Duncan Glen "Out to the Calf of Man".
File
Identifier: Acc.10156
Scope and Contents
Includes associated artwork.
Dates:
1990.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of a sequence of seven poems of Tom Leonard, "Situations Theoretical and Contemporary".
File
Identifier: Acc.9044
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript and typescript drafts of the second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, tenth and eleventh poems from Situations Theoretical and Contemporary (Newcastle: Galloping Dog Press, 1986).
Dates:
1985.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of eight poems of David Morrison.
File
Identifier: Acc.4719
Scope and Contents
With signed copy of Morrison`s "The White Hind and other Poems" (1968).
Dates:
1965-1968.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of five George Bruce poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.9919
Dates:
1982-1986.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of novels and other works of Mary Stewart, with related papers and notebooks., Circa 1954-1997.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13680/1-28
Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems from the sequence 'The luncheon of the boating party' by Stewart Conn., 1986-1988.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12098/39-42
Dates:
1986-1988.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem 'A Lang Guidnicht' by Helen B Cruickshank., 1968.
File
Identifier: MS.26713, folios 100-106
Manuscript and typescript fair copies of approximately 200 poems, circa 1967-1974, by Eric Rayne Mackinnon, many of which are unpublished. With letters, 1967-1974 and undated, to Robert Leslie Cockburn Hunter.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13210
Scope and Contents
Eric Rayne Mackinnon spent much of his adult life in mental hospitals, including the Royal Edinburgh and Carstairs State Hospital. But his gift for poetry, his love of music and of nature, and his Christianity, enabled him to overcome the circumstances of his illness and produce a remarkable body of work. He counted several poets among his friends – Kathleen Raine was a particular admirer and champion. Mackinnon published a number of small collections, including The Spark of Joy, (1970), The...
Dates:
1967-1974.
Manuscript and typescript of a collection of poems, titled 'Poems, Scots and English, by James Graham', entered by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', for the Arts Council Poetry Prize Scheme under a pseudonym., 1953-1954.
File
Identifier: MS.27008
Scope and Contents
Some leaves of both the manuscript and the typescript are missing.
Dates:
1953-1954.
Manuscript and typescript of an autobiography, "The Buzzing Fly" by Fanny Susan Copeland.
File
Identifier: Acc.11904
Scope and Contents
Concerns Copeland`s life in Slovenia and wartime internment in Italy. Includes poems and biographical notes.
Dates:
circa 1960-1975.
Manuscript and typescript of ‘But the Earth abideth’ by William Soutar., [1943, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8587-8588
Manuscript and typescript of 'Extravagaria', Alastair Reid's translation of Pablo Neruda's work., [1972, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27450
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of manuscript drafts of the translator's note and some of the poems (folio 1), and a typescript, with a few manuscript corrections, of the whole collection (folio 29).
Dates:
[1972, or before.]
Manuscript and typescript of ‘Fully empowered’ (London, 1976), Alastair Reid's translation of Pablo Neruda’s ‘Plenos Poderes’., [1976, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27452
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of manuscript drafts of some of the poems (folio 1) and a typescript of the whole collection with a few manuscript corrections and different typed versions.
Dates:
[1976, or before.]
Manuscript and typescript of ‘Gleanings by an undergraduate’ by William Soutar, [1923, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8563-8564
Manuscript and typescript of ‘Isla Negra, a notebook’, Alastair Reid's translation of Pablo Neruda’s ‘Memorial de Isla Negra’., 1979-1981, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27454
Scope and Contents
There are manuscript drafts of a few poems (folio 1), but most of the volume consists of an incomplete typescript with manuscript corrections (folio 10). There are additional corrected typescripts of some of the poems (folio 116).
Dates:
1979-1981, undated.
Manuscript and typescript of poetry, relating to 'Broadsheet' edition twelve., August 1971.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/33
Manuscript and typescript of ‘Selected poems’ and manuscript of ‘Selection of Scots verses’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8604-8606
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.
Manuscript and typescript of 'Selected poems' by William Soutar, of which all the poems have been published., [Before 1944.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8604-8605
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 typescript of ‘Selected poems’ and manuscript of ‘Selection of Scots verses’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript and typescript of ‘The expectant silence’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8589-8590
Manuscript and typescript of ‘The solitary way’ by William Soutar, both corresponding exactly to the published volume., [1934, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8576-8577