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 containing two anonymous poems., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5753
Scope and Contents
The two poems are: 'Capitulo al Ser[enissi]mo Prencipe di Piemonte', a complimentary poem addressed to Victor Amadeus I of Savoy, 1630-1637 (folio 1); and 'Ottave di Spropositi', a mock-heroic poem, undated (folio 9).
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript containing verse and tale fragments in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.47
Scope and Contents
Originally 3 separate fragments, each by a different scribe. Folios 1 and 4, are the outer leaves of a copy of ‘An Tenga Bithnua’. Date and provenance unknown, except perhaps for folio 2 (text: Ulster, 15th century).Initials and inventory numbers are as follows. Folio 1 recto: ‘No 11’ (pencil, ?hand of Lewis Gordon, Depute Secretary of the Highland Society of Scotland), ‘15’ ‘JMcH’ (James McHardy, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.43), ‘N. 4’ (scored out), ‘10’ (erased). Folio 3 recto: ‘16 JMcH’...
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
Manuscript copy of 'Penny wheep' by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', possibly made in the 1960's., [?1960-1969.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27002
Dates:
[?1960-1969.]
Manuscript copy of some doggerel, "Thoughts on Editors", by Thomas Moore., 1831.
File
Identifier: MS.42488
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a fair copy of a poem by Moore included in a letter, 25 October 1831, to John Murray II. The fair copy is accompanied by a note, "The obliterated lines", which includes an attempt by the copyist to transcribe the final, heavily deleted verse of Moore`s original.The copy is undated, nor is there a watermark on the paper on which it is written. The accompanying note is also undated, but the paper on which it is written has a partial watermark, "31", which would...
Dates:
1831.
Manuscript copy, undated, in the hand of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, of a chap-book entitled 'The devil and the lady'; and two poems, undated, also in his hand, bound together., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6609 [L.C.3233]
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Manuscript corrected draft of poem of Hamish Henderson, "The Flying o` Life and Daith".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4526
Dates:
circa 1968.
Manuscript, corrected for publication, of 'Conflict’ by William Soutar., [1931, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8570
Dates:
[1931, or before.]
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 typescripts of different versions of ‘Conflict’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript draft and typescript of poem of Alan Bold, "June 1967 at Buckenwald".
File
Identifier: Acc.4477
Dates:
circa 1967.
Manuscript draft, fair copy, and typescript of Christopher Murray Grieve’s, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid', adaptation of 'Aniara' by Harry Martinson., 1959-1960.
File
Identifier: MS.27012
Scope and Contents
Most of cantos 36-103 are missing.
Dates:
1959-1960.
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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Material for the adaptation by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid' and Elspeth Harley Schubert of Harry Martinson's poem, ‘Aniara’.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of collection of poems of Joseph MacLeod, "An Old Olive Tree" (1971).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5622
Dates:
1971.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of four poems of Alan Riddell.
File
Identifier: Acc.4711
Dates:
circa 1969.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems of Alan Jackson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6053/1-33
Scope and Contents
Poems and notebooks of Alan Jackson, Edinburgh poet, some of them used in his book 'Underwater wedding' and 'Salutations'.
Dates:
1955-1968, undated.
Manuscript drafts and typescript copies of 50 poems of Gavin Ewart, most being included in his collection, "85 Poems" (1993).
File
Identifier: Acc.10819
Dates:
1988-1992.
Manuscript drafts and typescript of Tom Scott, "The Harp", a poem.
File
Identifier: Acc.9904
Dates:
mid to late 20th century.
Manuscript drafts and typescripts of 37 poems of Liz Lochhead.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7799
Dates:
circa 1972-1980.
Manuscript drafts of 29 poems of Sir Joseph Noël Paton.
File
Identifier: Acc.6219
Dates:
circa 1877-circa 1887.
Manuscript drafts of 37 poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, alias Hugh MacDiarmid, and of parts of a larger work probably related to 'Impavidi Progrediamur'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11451
Scope and Contents
Some of the poems are apparently unpublished, but, where possible, references have been given to page numbers of the Complete Poems edited by Michael Grieve and W R Aitken, (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994). [CP].Manuscripts of individual poems:‘Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone’, undated [CP 874, 1069](A Point in Time; Wedding of the Winds; Composition (1934); Knight; of William Johnstone’s Art; Ode to the North Wind).‘To my friend the...
Dates:
Circa 1920-1970.
Manuscript drafts of poems and limericks probably by Thomas Cowan, bookseller, Haddington.
File
Identifier: Acc.13882
Scope and Contents
Many of the verses are in Scots. Some of the poems were published in local newspapers.
Dates:
circa 1887-1889.
Manuscript drafts of poems of Alison Fell., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12394/33-34
Dates:
Undated.
Manuscript drafts of poems of W Price Turner, "Impasse" (1956), and "As Advertised" (1963).
File
Identifier: Acc.4789
Scope and Contents
With manuscript draft of novel, "Circle of Squares".
Dates:
1956-1969.
Manuscript drafts of sermons first preached by Donald Macleod in The Park Church, and elsewhere; and religious verses., 1876-1909, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9833
Scope and Contents
The contents are arranged as follows: Manuscript drafts of sermons first preached in The Park Church, 1876-1909 (folio i); Manuscript drafts of sermons first preached elsewhere, 1895, [1901] (folio 192); Religious verses, undated (folio 246).
Dates:
1876-1909, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, autobiographical papers, and sermons of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod, Doctor of Divinity (1831-1916), minister of The Park parish, Glasgow from 1869 to 1909, and editor of the periodical ‘Good words’ from 1872 to 1905.
Manuscript drafts, typescripts, and fair copies of poems in various publications by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1931, or before]-[1957, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27003
Dates:
[1931, or before]-[1957, or before.]
Manuscript, entitled 'The signature of silence', by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8589
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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Manuscript and typescript of ‘The expectant silence’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript, "Fall of Jerusalem", by Henry Hart Milman., 1820, or before.
Item
Identifier: MS.42482