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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 of several poems by and an article concerning John Eagles., 1835-1855, 1858.

 File
Identifier: MS.4792
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts of fourteen apparently unpublished poems by John Eagles, 1835-1855, copied and mostly dated by Miss Zoe King. The titles are: 'Garland to Blackwood on publishing no. cccc', 'Ten unpublished sonnets', "Inscription for Chatterton's Monument", 'Reconciliation', and 'Woods'. (Folios 1-19 recto, 21-32.)(ii) Manuscripts of three poems by Eagles entitled 'The earth bears fruit in life and fruit in death', 'Hail! Sacredness of hoar...
Dates: 1835-1855, 1858.

Manuscripts of ten poems by Felicia Dorothea Hemans., [1827, or before-1834, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.4803
Scope and Contents

The titles of the poems are as follows: 'The water lily', 'The Lady of Provence', 'Woman on the field of battle', 'To the memory of Lord Charles Murray', 'The burial in the desert', 'Song of emigration', 'The freed bird', 'Marguerite of France', "Scenes and hymns of life, No. 8, prisoner's evening service", and 'Keene, or Funeral lament of an Irish mother over her son'.

Dates: [1827, or before-1834, or before.]

Manuscripts of three poems by Robert Macnish., Circa 1822-1830.

 File
Identifier: MS.4847
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Manuscript of 'Poetical portraits' (folio 1);

(ii) Manuscripts of two apparently unpublished poems, 'Jerusalem', circa 1822, and 'To the Rhine', circa 1825 (folio 5).

Dates: Circa 1822-1830.

Manuscripts of two poems, undated, of James Ballantine.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5999
Scope and Contents

With letter, 1850, of Ballantyne to Lord Cockburn.

Dates: 1850 and undated.

Manuscripts of 'Under the Eildon tree', with the title 'Deirdre, a Lament in XX Cantos’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1947.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26164-26165
Scope and Contents

Both the text and the order of the poems differ from the published version, and they include additional unpublished material.

Dates: 1947.

Manuscripts of various articles and poems by George Carless Swayne., 1884, 1887, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.4879
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscripts, undated, of six apparently unpublished articles, 'War and civilization' (folio 1), 'King Kohl' (folio 28), 'Free trade' (folio 33), "Notes on the Paris 'Salon'" (folio 44), 'Picturesque Switzerland' (folio 53), and 'Gardening as a profession for ladies' (folio 83);(ii) Manuscripts of six apparently unpublished poems: two versions of 'In Leopoldi memoriam', 1884 (folio 90), 'A Tuscan afterglow', 1884 (folio 92), 'A fable for...
Dates: 1884, 1887, undated.