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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:

Notebook of William Wallace.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8250
Scope and Contents

Containing verses and drawings.

With some unconnected letters.

Dates: 1900-1901.

"Notebook Poins" of George Crabbe., 1827.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42079
Scope and Contents

Title taken from the "Index of English Literary Manuscripts", volume 3, part 1, page 295 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.

Dates: 1827.

Notebook, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3280
Scope and Contents The notebook contains:(i) 'Craobh sgaoilidh nan Gaedheal' (The expansions of the Gaels), being five parts and the argument of a sixth part of an epic, which begins with the migration of the Celts from Asia to Europe (folio 1);(ii) Material, mainly biographical and genealogical, copied from printed sources, especially from Alexander Cameron's ‘The history and traditions of the Isle of Skye’ (folio 50).On folio 1 verso is a note, 'The following are original...
Dates: Late 19th century.

Notebook, undated, containing juvenile poems of Hugh Miller., [1815-1827.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.7521
Scope and Contents

The notebook also contains some rough notes of material used in 'Scenes and legends of the north of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1835).

Dates: [1815-1827.]

Notebook, undated, containing poems copied by Eliza Trotter., ?4th quarter of 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20302
Scope and Contents

There are no dates recorded but the hand resembles that in MS.20297, rather than the later diaries at MSS.20298-20301.

Dates: ?4th quarter of 19th century.