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:
Notebook containing drafts of poems of Thomas Stoddart, most of which are printed in ‘Songs of the seasons’., [1881, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.10300
Scope and Contents
There are also a few fishing notes (folio 135 verso, 140 verso).
Dates:
[1881, or before.]
Notebook containing juvenile poems of Hugh Miller., 1817-1823.
Item
Identifier: MS.7519
Notebook containing juvenile poems of Hugh Miller., 1815-1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.7520
Notebook containing juvenile poems of Hugh Miller., 1821-1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.7522
Notebook containing juvenile poems of Hugh Miller., 1821-1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.7523
Notebook containing original poems and verse translations by George Campbell Hay., 1945-1946.
Item
Identifier: MS.14968
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains 39 poems in Gaelic (14), English (14) and Scots (11). These include two further poems on ‘Mochtar is Dubhghall’ (folios 15 recto, 38 verso), and English verse translation of An Ciaran Mabach’s “Nollaig bu ghnàthach air fìon” (folio 25 verso) and English prose translations (published) of two of the poet’s own works (folio 43 verso). Folios 27 verso-37 recto, 38 recto blank.
Dates:
1945-1946.
Notebook containing poems addressed to various members of the Seaforth family., 1814.
Item
Identifier: MS.6400
Notebook containing poems in the hand of Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer., 1746, 1750, 1757.
Item
Identifier: MS.17890
Dates:
1746, 1750, 1757.
Notebook containing poems mostly by Rob Donn Mackay, taken down by Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine from the recitation of the poet's daughter Janet., 1800
Item
Identifier: Acc.14544/4
Scope and Contents
Notebook with marbled boards of cardboard, the spine strengthened by a strip of brown leather. Paginated [1]-137 by the scribe. In the hand of Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine. Contains mostly poetry of Rob Donn Mackay. A note on the inside back cover, paginated 137, says: "These poems were taken from Janet McKay dr to Rob Mc Kay before Duncan McIntyre poet this 22 of Decr 1800 at no. 17 Thistle Street Edin[burgh].Contains biographical notes on Rob Donn, followed by a collection of his...
Dates:
1800
Notebook containing the original manuscript of 'An autobiography' by Edwin Muir., [1954, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19657
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains pages 205-250 of the published text, beginning on folio 10 and written on the rectos and then inverted on the versos; folio 1 and the rectos of folios 2-9 contain poems and notes, including material for the autobiography which was used by P H Butter in ‘Edwin Muir: man and poet’, 1966, pages 246-249.
Dates:
[1954, or before.]
Notebook containing typescripts of original poems and verse translations by George Campbell Hay., 1943-1945.
Item
Identifier: MS.14967
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains 60 poems in Gaelic (39), French (9), English (9), Italian (2) and Scots (1), together with an unpublished Gaelic verse sequence beginning ‘Mochtar is Dubhghall’ (folio 18 verso); Gaelic translations of Arabic rhymes, sayings and riddles (folio 38 verso; see “O na ceithir Àirdean”, page 65); and lists of poems (folio 41 verso).
Dates:
1943-1945.
Notebook containing unpublished poetry of Thomas Stoddart., 1825-1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.10292
Notebook containing unpublished poetry of Thomas Stoddart., 1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.10293
Notebook containing unpublished poetry, undated, of Thomas Stoddart., 1827-1836, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.10294
Scope and Contents
Includes angling records for 1827-1836 (folio 1 inverted).
Dates:
1827-1836, undated.
Notebook containing verses, jottings and notes of Willa Muir from printed works on psychology and literature., 1959, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19699
Notebook, containing verses on religious subjects., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/383
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Forbes Family Notebooks.
Notebook containing works on musical theory, psalm tunes, miscellaneous recipes and a poem.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.16
Scope and Contents
The arrangement of the notebook is as follows:musical theory (folios 1-19, 35-66);tenor and bass parts only to 13 common psalm tunes, all in the psalter of 1635 (folios 20-32);the proper tune for psalm 119, tune only (folio 33);melody and figured bass parts to 10 psalm tunes, possibly from a collection circa 1750 (folios 66 verso-71);miscellaneous recipes for colours, medicines, etc. (folios 76-115); and,a poem...
Dates:
Circa 1754.
`Notebook David Morris` of George Crabbe., 1820.
Item
Identifier: MS.42075
Scope and Contents
Title taken from the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 297 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.
Dates:
1820.
Notebook entitled 'Amusements in Solitude', containing copies of verse and prose, chiefly of a religious nature., 1779.
Item
Identifier: MS.8239
Dates:
1779.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Notebooks entitled 'Amusements in Solitude', containing copies of verse and prose, chiefly of a religious nature.
Notebook entitled 'Amusements in Solitude', containing copies of verse and prose, chiefly of a religious nature., 1780-1781.
Item
Identifier: MS.8240
Dates:
1780-1781.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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Notebooks entitled 'Amusements in Solitude', containing copies of verse and prose, chiefly of a religious nature.
Notebook entitled 'Poesias ... (nel siglo XVIII)' chiefly by José Perez de Montoro (died 1694), customs officer in Cadiz and secretary to Carlos II.
Item
Identifier: MS.6158
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains sixty-seven religious and secular poems, as follows.(i) Anonymous and untitled patriotic poem, alluding to the tyranny of Napoleon, written on the flyleaves in an early nineteenth-century hand. (Folio 1.)(ii) Forty-six religious poems, all composed apparently by José Perez de Montoro, written in two or three different eighteenth-century hands. The majority are addressed to Saints in the form of 'letters', 'hymns', 'paraphrases', 'ballads',...
Dates:
17th century-early 19th century.
Notebook entitled 'Songs and Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by Charles Spence, a mason in Errol’, containing thirty-seven poems.
Item
Identifier: MS.6157
Dates:
1805-1813.
"Notebook Flowers" of George Crabbe., 1819-1822.
Item
Identifier: MS.42074
Scope and Contents
Title taken from the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 296 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.
Dates:
1819-1822.
Notebook labelled 'Book second', containing part of an anonymous poem in blank verse concerning the Seven Years' War., ?Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.8246
Scope and Contents
The main section of the notebook describes an action at Pirna (Upper Saxony), October, 1756, between Frederick the Great and the Saxons and Austrians.
Dates:
?Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.