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 poems and sketches of Sir William Quiller Orchardson.
File
Identifier: Acc.8025
Scope and Contents
With associated photographs.
Dates:
circa 1855.
Manuscript poems of Forbes Macgregor.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10549
Scope and Contents
With manuscripts and typescripts of three articles, 1932 and undated, of Macgregor.
Dates:
1921-1990 and undated.
Manuscript, probably from Normandy, of the complete works of Horace.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two originally separate parts: (i) containing 'Carmina' (folio 1), 'Epodi' (folio 41), and 'Carmen saeculare' (folio 50); and(ii) containing 'De arte poetica' (folio 51), 'Epistolae' (folio 58), and 'Sermones' (folio 81). It presents basically a Ψ text, most closely related to δ (Brit.Mus.Harl.MS.2725, 9th century) and π (Paris.lat.10310, 9th century), with some contamination from Ξ bringing it into occasional agreement with [?]...
Dates:
11th century-early 12th century.
Manuscript titled 'Poems part X' by Ruth Munro., December 1942.
Item
Identifier: MS.26987
Dates:
December 1942.
Manuscript titled 'War Poems' by Ruth Munro., June 1942.
Item
Identifier: MS.26986
Dates:
June 1942.
Manuscript, typescript and galley-proofs of ‘Robert Burns: poems' selected by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1949, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27079
Dates:
[1949, or before.]
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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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Broadcasts and speeches of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Editorial work of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Manuscript, typescript and printed texts of articles, reviews and poems by Rachel Annand Taylor, and notes for these publications., 1904-1956, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20425-20430
Manuscript, typescripts and corrected proofs of Gavin Ewart, "Penultimate Poems".
File
Identifier: Acc.9918
Scope and Contents
Includes unpublished verses.
Dates:
1989.
Manuscript, typescripts and other papers relating to published works of A N Jeffares., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9271/262-452
Manuscript, undated, of an apparently unpublished poem, 'The death of St Edmund' by Walter William Skeat., ?Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.4869
Dates:
?Late 19th century.
Manuscript, undated, of 'The crusaders' (abandoned) by George Donald Valentine., Early 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5185
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Manuscript, undated, titled 'Some recreations of a handloom weaver', being a work on natural history written for his family by Alexander Gray (1800-1880), grandfather of Sir Alexander Gray., [Before 1881.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26015
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of a general history and description of the earth, followed by descriptions of animals, illustrated with several watercolours. At the end (folio 203) are miscellaneous notes and verses.
Dates:
[Before 1881.]
Manuscript verses of Elsa Cross Thomas inscribed to James Keir Hardie.
File
Identifier: Acc.9352
Dates:
June 1909.
Manuscript volume of poems and prose pieces by Alexander Pennecuik, entitled `The Whole Works of Alexr Pennecuik Gent. Volura 2d`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.15
Scope and Contents
The volume also includes the text of ‘Coridon and Cochrania’ (folio 65) and `The Publict and Secret History of the Malt Tax,` 1725 (folio 86).The manuscript is in several hands of the 18th century. It was originally paginated, containing pages 215-337 (folios 2-59 and 80-85) and there is an index to these sections (folio 124). Folio 85 verso contains a `List of ye persons who are furnished with my weekly papers`, 1726, and there is also a list of Pennecuik`s works (folio 126...
Dates:
Circa 1723-1726.
Manuscript, with a few corrected typescript folios, of ‘The solitary way’ by William Soutar., [1934, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8576
Dates:
[1934, 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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Manuscript and typescript of ‘The solitary way’ by William Soutar, both corresponding exactly to the published volume.
Manuscript, with marked proofs, "A Voice from the Factories", by Caroline Norton., 1836.
File
Identifier: MS.42509
Scope and Contents
'A voice from the factories' is a poem by Caroline Norton (later Stirling Maxwell), which was published by John Murray in 1836. The poem highlights the working conditions for children of the period. Caroline Norton was a noted campaigner for the rights of children and this poem is part of her work in the area.This volume includes a manuscript version and a proof of the poem. The manuscript includes a title page, the dedication to Lord Ashley (later 7th Earl of Shaftesbury)...
Dates:
1836.
Manuscript worksheets of 14 poems of Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Alastair Reid.
File
Identifier: Acc.11519
Scope and Contents
The fourteen poems are:
Del Infierno y Del Cielo
El Reloj de Arena
El Instante
El Sueno
1964
Al Hijo
Poema del Cuarto Elemento
El Alquimista
Poema Conjetural
Baltasar Gracián
Lectores
Dreamtigers
Everness
El Forastero
Dates:
1996-1997.
Manuscript, written by Antonio Caballario, of the 'Eclogues' and 'Aeneid' of Virgil.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.14
Scope and Contents
`Aeneid` i.1-45 are lost. There are verse arguments to `Aeneid` ii-xii (Pseudo-Ovid in ‘Anthologia Latina’, 1).Subscription to the `Eclogues`, folio 17 verso: `Explicit liber Bucolicorum Antonii filii S. Leonardi de bagnara Scriptus p(er) me Antoniu(m) Caballa(r)iu(m) 1467 die 28 Augusti`.Initials in red and purple or blue and purple to each `Eclogue`, to the arguments of `Aeneid` ii, iv-xii, and to `Aeneid` ii, v-xii. Initials infilled with a flower or with leaves,...
Dates:
1467.
Manuscript, written in 1488, of the 'Wallace' of Blind Hary.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.2(ii)
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland, containing the narrative poem 'The Wallace' of Blind Hary, or Henry the minstrel, probably originally composed between 1474 and 1479. This manuscript is written in Scots and is the only extant contemporary manuscript of the Wallace. The colophon on folio 124v states that the work was transcribed in 1488 by John Ramsay, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth. The work is in a single column and is divided into 11 books, with spaces left at the...
Dates:
1488.
Manuscript, written in 1489, of 'The Brus' of John Barbour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.2(i)
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland containing the narrative poem The Bruce, or The Brus, of John Barbour. The colophon on folio 70r states that the work was transcribed in 1489 by John Ramsay, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, at the request of Symon Lochmalony, vicar of Auchtermoonzie in Fife.The work is written in Older Scots and is in double columns, with around 47 lines per column. The poem is divided into paragraphs and sections of varying lengths. A new paragraph is...
Dates:
1489.
Manuscript, written in England in the late 11th century, containing the satires of Persius, the fables of Avianus, and miscellaneous poetry and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.12
Scope and Contents
Most of the leaves are palimpsest, but the underwriting is illegible; it may be from the same manuscripts as that in Adv.MS.18.7.8 (pricking from the original manuscript survives on folios 3+6, 9, 16+23, 17+22, 26+29, 34+35, in one or both edges of the text-frame; the width of the ruled area was 172 millimetres in folios 3+6, 17+22, 26+29, 192 millimetres in folio 9.). See 'Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit d' Edinbourg', 33 and what follows.The contents of the manuscript are as...
Dates:
Late 11th century.