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 of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', kept during his training in precision engineering at Thornliebank Training College., 1942.
Item
Identifier: MS.27180
Dates:
1942.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Miscellaneous papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks and diaries of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', kept during his training in precision engineering at Thornliebank Training College.
Notebook of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', kept while working at Mechan's Engineering Company on Clydeside., April-May 1942.
Item
Identifier: MS.27181
Dates:
April-May 1942.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Miscellaneous papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks and diaries of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', kept while working at Mechan's Engineering Company on Clydeside.
Notebook of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', kept while working at Mechan's Engineering Company on Clydeside., July-September 1943.
Item
Identifier: MS.27183
Dates:
July-September 1943.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Miscellaneous papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks and diaries of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', kept while working at Mechan's Engineering Company on Clydeside.
Notebook of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', kept while working at Mechan's Engineering Company on Clydeside., February 1944.
Item
Identifier: MS.27185
Dates:
February 1944.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Miscellaneous papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks and diaries of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Notebooks of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', kept while working at Mechan's Engineering Company on Clydeside.
Notebook of David Gray containing four apparently unpublished poems on the seasons., 1853.
Item
Identifier: MS.8467
Dates:
1853.
Notebook of David Gray containing miscellaneous notes and a poem entitled 'The Storm and the ship'., 1854.
Item
Identifier: MS.8469
Dates:
1854.
Notebook of David Gray containing miscellaneous notes, including several apparently unpublished poems., 1855.
Item
Identifier: MS.8470
Dates:
1855.
Notebook of David Gray containing notes on various topics and drafts of several poems., [Circa 1855.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8476
Scope and Contents
The notebook includes some autobiographical ramblings (folio 8 verso).
Dates:
[Circa 1855.]
Notebook of David Morrison containing drafts of poems and notes.
File
Identifier: Acc.12226
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems for "Caithness Coronach" (2003).
Dates:
circa 1988-2002.
Notebook of Donald MacPherson containing Gaelic poems., [Circa 1836.]
Item
Identifier: MS.14891
Scope and Contents
Many of the poems reappear in final draft in MS.14894.The contents are as follows.(i) "‘Se miann dhaormunn suarach bhi cnuasach gach lò", 4 quatrains + chorus. (Page v.)"Ged is fada bho thuath mi", 7 quatrains + chorus. (Page vii.)"Gur lionar goraich ri ‘r n-oige ceangailte", 6 quatrains. (Page xi.)"Bi’dh buidheann nan geug le suigeart a seinn", 5 quatrains + chorus. (Page xii.)'An cuimhne leat nuair bha sinn', 6...
Dates:
[Circa 1836.]
Notebook of Donald MacPherson containing Gaelic poetry., [1831, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.14893
Scope and Contents
The notebook , watermarked 1831, is inscribed (folio 2 recto) ‘Co-chruinneachadh Orain Ghaidhealach’.The contents are as follows.(i) Evan MacColl. “S’ i so ‘n nollaig a leon mi”, 6 quatrains + chorus. Cf. “Clàrsach nan Beann” (1937), page 100 (folio 3 recto);(ii) Evan MacColl. “Aig taobh Aoradh na gànraich”, 5 quatrains + chorus. “Esan ‘ga freagairt”. Cf. “Clàrsach nan Beann” (1937), page 101 (folio 4 recto);(iii) Evan MacColl. “Tha ‘n samhradh...
Dates:
[1831, or after.]
Notebook of Donald MacPherson containing rough drafts of poetry., [1848, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.14892
Scope and Contents
The notebook is inscribed (folio 2 recto) 'Original Songs By Donald Macpherson – Dedicated to Alexander Halley Esqre MD 21 Nov. 1848'.Later versions of many items appear in MSS.14891 and 14894. The manuscript is water-marked 1822.The contents are as follows.(i) “I’ve pined and breathed infected air”, 2 stanzas (folio 5 recto);(ii) ‘All hail, lovely Laggan! Thou sole spot of earth’, 4 stanzas (folio 7 recto);(iii) ‘Innis, fhir nan...
Dates:
[1848, or before.]
Notebook of Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin containing transcripts of many of the unpublished portions of the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37)., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.14871
Scope and Contents
The transcripts by Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin amounting to almost half the original manuscripts, but leaning heavily on Ewen MacLachlan’s work in Adv.MS.72.3.3. With notes, transliterations or versions from other manuscripts on the facing page. The transcripts are not in correct order, so a complete concordance with the original is provided below. At folios 137 verso-140 recto, following a number of blank leaves, are some quotations (partly used for the “Prolegomena”) and a list of poems....
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Notebook of Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin containing transcripts of poems from the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan (Trinity College Dublin MS.1318)., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.14872
Scope and Contents
Also included are extracts from Adv.MS.72.1.29, Adv.MS.72.1.39, and other manuscripts. With notes, variant readings and sometimes complete alternative versions, mostly on facing page. References are given below to the translations and revised texts in MS.14870.The contents are as follows.(i) Lists of poems from various sources (folio 1 recto);(ii) Donnachadh Mór. “Eist ream fhaoisdin a ĺosa”, 22 quatrains (folio 15 recto);(iii)...
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Notebook of Edwin Muir., 1947-1948.
Item
Identifier: MS.19663
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains drafts of poems (passim); two essays on Robert Burns (folios 2, 38 verso); the preface to Jan Lukas, ‘Light and shade’, 1947 (folio 13); 'Robert Henryson' (folio 15) and ‘A note on Franz Kafka' (folio 42), both of which were published in Edwin Muir's ‘Essays on literature and society, 1949; 'Father and son' (folio 54), published in ‘The Listener’ xxxvii (1947), page 680; review of Frantisek Halas, ‘Old women’, 1948 (folio 65); article on Hugh Kingsmill, ‘The fall’,...
Dates:
1947-1948.
Notebook of Edwin Muir., 1956-1957.
Item
Identifier: MS.19965
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains a draft for the broadcast 'Revisiting Orkney' (folio 1); 'The ballads' published in ‘The New Statesman’, 53 (1957), pages 174-175 (folio 39 verso); reviews of work by Christopher Logue, C A Trypanis and Anna Kavan (folios 55, 96 verso); a translation from Kafka (folio 70 verso); and articles on 'Story and novel' (folio 30), Christopher Logue (folio 53), contemporary poetry (folio 61), ballads (folios 67, 90 verso) and 'The thirties' (folio 87 verso).
Dates:
1956-1957.
Notebook of Elizabeth Hume.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5587
Scope and Contents
Containing poems by Hume and others, sketches, and journal of a trip to England and Wales.
Dates:
1816.
Notebook of George Campbell Hay., [Circa 1975]-1982.
Item
Identifier: MS.26734
Notebook of George Campbell Hay., 1976-1982.
Item
Identifier: MS.26735
Scope and Contents
The notebook also contains corrections to 'Wind on Loch Fyne' (folio 63).
Dates:
1976-1982.
Notebook of George Campbell Hay., 1961, 1979-1980.
Item
Identifier: MS.26736
Notebook of George Campbell Hay., 1961, 1980-1982.
Item
Identifier: MS.26737
Notebook of George Campbell Hay., [Circa 1938], 1982.
Item
Identifier: MS.26738
Notebook of George Campbell Hay., 1983.
Item
Identifier: MS.26739
Notebook of George Campbell Hay., 1983.
Item
Identifier: MS.26740
Notebook of George Campbell Hay., 1938-1941, 1982.
Item
Identifier: MS.26728
Scope and Contents
Most of the volume consists of George Campbell Hay's diary which covers periods from 1938 to 1941 and gives details of his political activities and refusal to enlist in the armed services. Hay later used the book to draft the beginning of his projected 'Collected poems', 1928-1982.
Dates:
1938-1941, 1982.