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, typescripts, and related working papers of other creative works of Ian Rankin., 1977-2016, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50516-50523
Scope and Contents
This series contains manuscripts and typescripts of, and associated working papers for, various other creative works of Ian Rankin. The working papers include development and editorial notes. Administrative papers and correspondence relating to some of the works are also included.
Dates:
1977-2016, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts, letters and other papers of Edith Anne Robertson., 1915-1973, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26984
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Manuscripts and typescripts of poems in English, undated (folio 1). Some were published in ‘Forest voices’.
(ii) Manuscripts and typescripts of poems in Scots, 1969-1970, undated (folio l5). They include translations from Blake, T S Eliot and C Day Lewis.
(iii) Corrected typescripts of short stories, undated (folio 87);
(iv) Letters to Edith Anne Robertson about her work, 1915-1973, undated (folio 93);
(v) Printed articles and newspaper cuttings, ?1916-1973...
Dates:
1915-1973, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Kathleen Jamie, with related papers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11599/1-54
Scope and Contents
Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates:
1980-1997.
Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8844/1-65
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.
Dates:
1896-circa 1976.
Manuscripts, undated, of ‘Dürrenstein’ (episode for ‘The crusader’) and ‘Saul’ by George Donald Valentine., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5186
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Manuscripts, undated, of epigrams, riddles, aphorisms, and 'Vocable verses' by William Soutar., [1917-1942.]
File
Identifier: MS.8616
Dates:
[1917-1942.]
Manuscripts, undated, of poems of Albert David Mackie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9916-9922
Dates:
2nd quarter of 20th century-[before 1955.].
Manuscripts, undated, of poems of Sydney Durward Tremayne., Mid 20th century-late 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.26675
Dates:
Mid 20th century-late 20th century.
Manuscripts, undated, of rough, early versions of poems of William Soutar., [1917-1942.]
File
Identifier: MS.8612
Dates:
[1917-1942.]
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.
Masques and longer poems, chiefly of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1798-1809.
File
Identifier: MS.12830
Scope and Contents
Includes duplicates of material in MSS.12824, 12828.
Dates:
1798-1809.
Material by, or relating to, George Borrow, including part of his poem "The Count of Vendel`s Daughter" in his own hand.
File
Identifier: Acc.12702
Dates:
circa 1835-1840.
Material concerning a corn-mill of Norse type at Loch Ordais, South Bragar, Lewis, the outcome of a project by the pupils of Leurbost J S School., 1968.
File
Identifier: MS.14956, folios 4-12
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Newspaper cutting describing the project (folio 4);(ii) Diagrams of mill with Gaelic terms (folio 5);(iii) Malcolm Mackay (Calum Ruairidh), Bragar. “‘Se fath mo mhulad mar chaidh a’ mhuilinn”, 9 quatrains (folio 7);(iv) “Muileann na Criadha aig iochdair an òis”, 8 quatrains (folio 8);(v) “A’ mhuileann a dh’fhàgadh ‘na tàmh bho chionn fhada”, 8 quatrains (folio 9);(vi) Description of mill...
Dates:
1968.
Material concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 17th century-early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.891-900
Dates:
17th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Material for a biography of Thomas Carlyle, part, at least, of which was collected by Frederick Martin., 1821-1877, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2884
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of Mary Carlyle Aitken and others to Frederick Martin, regarding his biography of Thomas Carlyle, 1877. (Folio 1.)(ii) Poems, apparently in the early handwriting of Jane Welsh. (Folio 13.)(iii) Copies of correspondence, 1821-1856, chiefly of letters of Jane Welsh and Emerson to Thomas Carlyle. (Folio 18.) Some of the letters of Jane Welsh are copied from originals placed in MS.2883.(iv) Copies of letters...
Dates:
1821-1877, undated.
Material for 'Complete poems' by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1978, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27017
Scope and Contents
The material consists of photocopies of the preliminary pages in typescript and page-proof (folio 1), galley-proofs of pages 3-152 (folio 23), and page-proofs of pages ix-105 (folio 70).
Dates:
[1978, or before.]
Material for the adaptation by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid' and Elspeth Harley Schubert of Harry Martinson's poem, ‘Aniara’., 1956-1960.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27010-27012
Material for the 'Collected poems' (Edinburgh, 1977) by Robert Garioch., 1976.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26591-26594
Material for ‘The socialist poems of Hugh MacDiarmid’, edited by T S Law and Thurso Berwick., [1978, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27018
Scope and Contents
The material includes photocopies of poems taken from printed texts (folio 2), a corrected typescript of the introduction (folio 107), and page-proofs of pages i-xviii (folio 148).
Dates:
[1978, or before.]
Material of Ruthven Todd by and concerning other writers and artists., 1960-1978, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26888
Dates:
1960-1978, undated.
Material relating to Professor Derick S Thomson’s collection of poems ‘Eadar Samhradh is Foghar’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14969-14970
Dates:
1958, 1966-1967, undated.
Material relating to ‘The poems and ballads of Schiller’, translated by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton., 1844, 1851.
File
Identifier: MS.4824
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, 1851, of the preface to 'The poems and ballads of Schiller', second edition (folio 1);(ii) Dismembered copy of pages 1-232 of volume ii of the first edition, heavily corrected for the second (folio 16);(iii) Manuscripts of 'The cranes of lbycus' and a portion of 'The victory feast', corresponding to pages 127-139 of volume i of the first edition (folio 132);(iv) Manuscripts of 'Farewell to the reader'...
Dates:
1844, 1851.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3824-3829
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott., 1762-[1832].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.877-882
Dates:
1762-[1832].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.