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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:

Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Radio Forth Ryhmes' by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1975-1977.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26589-26590
Scope and Contents

Robert Garioch Sutherland was commissioned by Radio Forth to write and broadcast a light-hearted poem once a week, and he completed a series of a hundred such verses. They are not included in his ‘Complete poetical works’ (Edinburgh, 1983). The manuscript drafts were written on the backs of letters and circulars (the more important of which have been indexed), and other scrap paper.

Dates: 1975-1977.

Manuscripts and typescripts of reviews, critical works and poetry of Tom Leonard.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11807
Scope and Contents

Includes video and radio cassettes concerning "The City of Dreadful Night" and "Radical Renfrew".

Dates: 1965-1999.

Manuscripts and typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication., [Before 1944.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8597-8606
Scope and Contents

Many of the poems appear individually in William Soutar's published works, while the remainder are apparently unpublished.

Since, in MSS.8599-8603, there are a considerable number of unpublished poems, they have been indicated by an asterisk in the contents lists which Soutar compiled for these volumes.

Dates: [Before 1944.]

Manuscripts and typescripts of ‘Stony limits and other poems’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1934, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.27004
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise an incomplete contemporary manuscript of the whole collection, with the title 'Forty New Songs' (folio 1), and drafts and fair copies of individual poems (folio 58), including some versions in English and poems deleted from the first edition.

Dates: [1934, or before.]

Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith; with letters to Hazel Goodsir Smith.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12006
Scope and Contents Manuscripts and Typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith:Corrected carbon copy of typescript, circa 1948, of 'Under the Eildon Tree'.Manuscripts, circa 1952-1953, of four poems dedicated to Hazel Goodsir Smith.‘Tis Late’ was published in 'Lines Review', 6 (1954), page 23; ‘Mareeld’ was published in 'Omens' (Edinburgh: M.Macdonald, 1955), page 16.Letter, undated, to Hazel Goodsir Smith.Manuscript drafts, undated, of ‘Said Heraclitus’....
Dates: Circa 1948-1976, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of the writings of William Sharp and of the works in the Celtic vein which Sharp wrote under the name of 'Fiona MacLeod'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8771-8786
Scope and Contents

The papers include a substantial amount of apparently unpublished material and some correspondence.

Dates: 1871-1910, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Tom Leonard concerning "Nora`s Place" and "Situations Theoretical and Contemporary".

 File
Identifier: Acc.11402
Scope and Contents

Includes four prose articles.

Dates: 1986-1994 and undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts of unpublished poems of Sir Alexander Gray., 1922-1928, 1942-1951, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26003
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts, 1922-1928, chiefly from 'Later Numbers' (folio l); (ii) Typescripts, 1942-1951, undated (folio 8).

Dates: 1922-1928, 1942-1951, undated.

Manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of translations of poetry and prose by George S Fraser.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11406
Scope and Contents

Includes related correspondence, 1965-1986, and an undated manuscript of W S Graham.

Dates: 1965-1986 and undated.