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 poems by Winthrop Mackworth Praed bound together under the spine-title, "Praed`s political poems - M.S.S."., 1830-1833.
Item
Identifier: MS.42527
Manuscripts of prose and poetry by Hamish Hendry, with a copy of 'A Scots Dominie' (1924), inscribed to his daughter.
File
Identifier: Acc.12993
Dates:
Circa 1920-1924.
Manuscripts of 'Radio Forth Ryhmes' by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1975-1977.
File
Identifier: MS.26589
Manuscripts of 'Reasons of state', 1919-1921, and 'Adonijah', 1922-1923, by George Donald Valentine., 1919-1923.
File
Identifier: MS.5187
Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House.
Record Group
Identifier: MSS.50701-50706
Dates:
1781-1832.
Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar., 1917-1942, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8609-8612
Dates:
1917-1942, undated.
Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar., 1917-1932.
File
Identifier: MS.8609
Dates:
1917-1932.
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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Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript poems of William Soutar, many apparently unpublished.
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Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar.
Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar., 1932-1935.
File
Identifier: MS.8610
Dates:
1932-1935.
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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Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript poems of William Soutar, many apparently unpublished.
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Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar.
Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar., 1936-1942, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8611-8612
Dates:
1936-1942, undated.
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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Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript poems of William Soutar, many apparently unpublished.
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Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar.
Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar., 1936-1942.
File
Identifier: MS.8611
Dates:
1936-1942.
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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Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript poems of William Soutar, many apparently unpublished.
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Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar.
Manuscripts of 'Satires', 1925-1926, 'Odes', 1927-1931, and 'The barmecide' (beginning), undated, by George Donald Valentine., 1925-1931, [1933, or before].
File
Identifier: MS.5183
Dates:
1925-1931, [1933, or before].
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 short pieces of poetry, 1905-1915, and 'Heart of Bruce', 1911, by George Donald Valentine., 1905-1915.
File
Identifier: MS.5180
Manuscripts of short pieces of poetry, 1915, 'Fountain of youth', 1915, and odes and short pieces of poetry, 1916-1919, by George Donald Valentine., 1915-1919.
File
Identifier: MS.5181
Manuscripts of short pieces of poetry by George Donald Valentine., 1919-1928.
File
Identifier: MS.5182
Manuscripts of short poems, circa 1919-circa 1931, and 'Adonijah', undated, and typescript, undated, of 'The fountain of youth' by George Donald Valentine., Circa 1919-circa 1931, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5197
Dates:
Circa 1919-circa 1931, undated.
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 'The barmecide' (conclusion), 1933, short pieces of poetry, 1934-1942, and 'Moses', undated, by George Donald Valentine., 1933-1942, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5184
Dates:
1933-1942, undated.
Manuscripts of the sections ’Whigmaleeries’ and ‘Lyrics in English’ of ‘Collected Poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8593-8594
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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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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 two song cycles, 'A seaside fantasy' and 'A commonplace fantasy' by William Ernest Henley, containing eleven and twenty-one poems respectively., 1875.
Item
Identifier: MS.4804
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.