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:
Notebooks of Ruthven Todd containing drafts of articles, memoirs and poems, and miscellaneous notes., 1948-?1968.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26865-26868
Notebooks of Sir Alexander Gray, containing manuscript drafts and ideas for poems., First half of 20th Century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26005-26007
Notebooks of Sydney Durward Tremayne, containing drafts of poems, notes on current affairs for newspaper articles, addresses, and other material., ?1957-?1972, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26684-26693
Scope and Contents
MSS.26689-26690 contain poems published in 'The turning sky' (London, 1969).
Dates:
?1957-?1972, undated.
Notebooks of Thomas Stoddart containing drafts of poems., 1860-1866.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10296-10297
Scope and Contents
The inverted folios of both manuscripts contain angling notes and reminiscences.
Dates:
1860-1866.
Notebooks of Thomas Tod Stoddart containing verses, angling notes and a few prose works by the angler poet.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10292-10304
Dates:
1825-1880.
Notebooks of William Soutar containing poems copied from earlier manuscripts., 1925-1941.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8626-8651
Notebooks of William Soutar entitled 'Occasional Verse'., 1935-1941.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8637-8639
Notebooks of William Soutar entitled 'Verses'., 1925-1940.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8626-8631
Notebooks of William Soutar entitled 'Verses in Scots'., 1925-1940.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8632-8634
Notebooks of William Soutar entitled 'Vocable Verses'., 1925-1935.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8640-8650
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary lists are at the end of each notebook.
Dates:
1925-1935.
Notebooks one and two of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1943-1955.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.824
Notebooks, undated, of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, containing chiefly legal notes and verse., 2nd half of the 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25436-25438
Dates:
2nd half of the 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Notebooks and commonplace books of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Notes and early drafts of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson., [1987.]
File
Identifier: MS.26974
Scope and Contents
Folios 52-113 were originally two notebooks with some loose pages inserted, and they also contain part of a short story, 'The Awakening' (folios 54-63), an essay on armed forces (versos of folios 112-102) and poems (versos of folios 99-53). There are some additional poems at the end (folio 120).
Dates:
[1987.]
Notes and memoranda of John Hill Burton., 1827-1863.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9418-9444
Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, advocate., 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.6.1-80.6.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are either in the hand of George Dundas, or bear evidence of his ownership.
Dates:
18th century.
Notes and other material on historical and other subjects, titled ‘Miscellanies’; some notes, etc., are in Sir Walter Scott’s hand., 12th century-1830, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.912
Scope and Contents
The papers include:German poem on the death of the terrier Camp, apparently by Henry Weber [?1809] (folio 14);James Hogg's ‘Glen-Avin’, in his autograph (folio 16);Prologue in Sir Walter Scott’s hand and apparently composed by him to ‘Helga’, probably the tragedy produced in Edinburgh in 1812 (folio 24);Drawing of the Torrs Mask presented to Scott by Train, with a description of it by Joseph Train (folio 80);Poem ‘To Time. By a...
Dates:
12th century-1830, undated.
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.
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Miscellaneous material, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Notes, mainly on geometry, by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.1
Scope and Contents
Moor`s interest in mathematics predated his classical studies and lasted throughout his life. The present volume contains geometrical theorems and calculations, some avowedly copied from elsewhere, many apparently original.The non-mathematical contents (apart from several invitations to funerals, written over by Moor) are: notes on manuscripts of the Greek mathematical writers (excerpted from ‘Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova’ by B de Montfaucon) (folios 1-6); a...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Notes of George Dundas of Dundas: treatise on music by – Bayne, prefaced by verses headed `The Master of Stormont to his freind Mr. Bayne on his Treatise of Musick.’, 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.6.9
Notes of John Purves., 1822-1959, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15869-15887
Notes of John Purves chiefly on the work of Italian post-war poets, with extracts from their poems., [?1920-?1940.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15716
Dates:
[?1920-?1940.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
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Notebooks, undated, of John Purves, probably belonging to the period 1920-1940.
Notes of John Purves on, and transcriptions of poems by, Louis Aragon., [Circa 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15816
Dates:
[Circa 1944.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing material on French literature.
Notes of John Purves on English literature., [Circa 1898]-1945, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15869-15874
Notes of John Purves on general literature., [Circa 1914-circa 1943], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15886
Scope and Contents
The contents includes:
(i) Paper, undated, by John Purves on 'The literature of the British dominions' (folio 1);
(ii) Notes, [circa 1930], on early Latin poetry and hymns taken chiefly from printed sources (folio 50);
(iii) Notes, [circa 1914], on literary relations between England and the Netherlands (folio 147);
(iv) Notes, undated, on 'The tendencies of recent German literature' (folio 201);
(v) Autograph manuscript, 1942-1943, of poems in German written by several poets (folio...
Dates:
[Circa 1914-circa 1943], undated.
Notes of Peter Butter relating to George Mackay Brown ; press relating to George Mackay Brown collected by Peter Butter., Circa 1992-1996.
File
Identifier: Acc.13634/69
Scope and Contents
File named ‘PB’s notes on: GMB, CMG, Henry James’ by Peter Butter.
Dates:
Circa 1992-1996.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Research papers and literary correspondence between Peter Butter and various correspondents relating to his work on Edwin and Willa Muir, William Blake, Francis Thompson and other writers.
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Research papers of Peter Butter relating to his work on William Blake, George MacDonald, Francis Thompson and other writers.
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Research papers of Peter Butter relating to his work on various writers.
Notes of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, chiefly on classical authors, also Latin and Greek verse and prose composition, including some juvenile exercises., 1744-1787, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25416
Dates:
1744-1787, undated.