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:
Notes on Aristotle and Sacrobosco written by Alexander Henryson (M.A. 1614) from the lectures of Regent James Reid at Edinburgh University .
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.3
Scope and Contents
The works discussed are: Aristotle:‘Ethica Nicomachea’ (folios 3-48);‘Physica’ (folios 49-95);‘de Caelo’ (folios 97-111 recto);Johannes de Sacrobosco: ‘de Sphera’ (folios 111 verso-171); Aristotle:‘de Generatione et Corruptione’ (folios 172-210);‘Meteorologica’ (folios 211-222); and,‘de Anima’ (folios 223-284). There are also some notes on religious and...
Dates:
1613-1614.
Notes on natural philosophy, written at King`s College, Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.15
Scope and Contents
The original series of notes were written in 1662 by John Barclay, `son to the lady Johnstoune`, probably from the lectures of his Regent, George Gordon, later 1st Earl of Aberdeen. They deal with commentaries on Aristotle, `De Generatione et Corruptione` (page 1); `De Anima` (page 82); `De Caelo` (page 144); and the `Meteoroligica` (page 150); with a short tract on metaphysics (page 162), and some notes on astronomy (page 178). The notebook passed to Alexander Irvine, who added a treatise...
Dates:
1662, 1694.
Notes, undated, on Border history and poetry not in the hand of John Purves., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15639
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
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 chiefly of John Purves containing notes on English language and literature.
‘Nye Eventyr’ by Hans Christian Anderson (Copenhagen, 1845), with verses, 1845, written by the author for Mrs Charlotte Cowan, Glasgow, on the flyleaf; with a photographic copy, a typed transcription, and a translation into English verse.
File
Identifier: MS.3921
Dates:
1845.
'Observations upon the Weather, &c.' by George Watson, apparently a farmer in Kincardineshire., 1747-1782.
File
Identifier: MS.2679
Scope and Contents
The observations are in the form of short daily entries for the years 1747-1749, 1756-1757, 1759 (November-December missing), 1760, 1764, 1766, 1781 (June-July only), 1782; with, here and there, a pious poem and notes on farming. At the end (folio 72), a complete gathering, originally a separate notebook, is devoted to notes on farming, 1764-1767.
Dates:
1747-1782.
'Occasional verses; Edinburgh, October 1820’.
File
Identifier: MS.15917
Scope and Contents
Fair copies of poems written from 1815 to 1820, presented by the author to an unnamed lady.
Dates:
1815-1820.
'Ocean, Stella, and other poems', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1830) by John Mackenzie, minister of Portpatrick, inscribed 'from the author', with an anonymous poem, 'The charming woman', tipped in at the end.
File
Identifier: MS.9227
Scope and Contents
The poem, 'The charming woman', is addressed to Miss Agnes Mackenzie, probably by John Mackenzie to his daughter.
Dates:
1830.
Open reel audio recording of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University., [1955-1956].
Item
Identifier: MS.50252
Open reel audio recording of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University., [1955-1956].
Item
Identifier: MS.50253
‘Oracles of God’, and other poems, by Thomas Tod Stoddart, the ‘Angler Poet’.
File
Identifier: MS.103
Dates:
1829.
"Original Border Poems", containing manuscript, typescript and printed poems by, among others, George Hope Tait and James Hope Brown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9955
Dates:
1913-1932 and undated.
Original diary of John M Reid., 8 May 1954-1961.
Item
Identifier: MS.26272
Original manuscript of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.16
Dates:
[1808, or before.]
Original manuscript of the poem 'In memory of Aurelio Saffi' by Algernon Charles Swinburne., 1890.
Item
Identifier: MS.9923
Original manuscript, undated, of the poem 'Hesperia' by Algernon Charles Swinburne., [1866, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9924
Original manuscript, undated, of the poem, 'I am for the woods against the world' by Edmund Blunden., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1030, folios 66-68
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Original manuscripts of the poems 'In memory of Aurelio Saffi' and 'Hesperia' by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9923-9924
Dates:
[1866, or before], 1890.
‘Origo gentis Hayorum; historico-poetica narration Danorum ad Scotiam appellentium’ by James Ross.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.27
Dates:
17th century.
Ossianic verse., 1755
Item
Identifier: MS.14854
Scope and Contents
A small booklet of 16 folios, 15.4 x 9.6 x 0.2 cm. Dated at the top of folio 1r: 1755. In the hand of Rev. Donald MacNicol. Formerly Acc.2152/20.It contains five Ossianic or Fenian lays, all of which are found in J. F. Campbell's 'Leabhar na Feinne', London 1872. Campbell had access to MacNicol's collection and incorporated it in his book, where it is collection 'D'; some of Campbell's notes on the collection are found in MS.14859. See also 'Leabhar na Feinne', pp. [v] and...
Dates:
1755
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.
Ossianic verse and poetry of Duncan Riach MacNicol and Lachlann Mac Theàrlaich Òig., 1762-1766
Item
Identifier: MS.14855
Scope and Contents
A small booklet of 10 folios, measuring 15.2 x 9.3. x 0.2 cm. It is dated 1766 on the first page, and 1762-3 at the head of folio 4r. In the hand of Rev. Donald MacNicol, and signed on folio 10v: Donald McNicol. Containing Ossianic verse, which is printed in 'Leabhar na Feinne', and more contemporary poetry. Formerly Acc.2152/23. The contents are as follows:"An Invinn", beginning 'Ossain uasail mhic Finn'. 24 numbered stanzas of 4 lines, and an additional stanza at the foot of...
Dates:
1762-1766
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.
Ossianic verse collected by Duncan Kennedy., 1774-1783.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.9
Scope and Contents
The hand is anonymous except where noted. Notes passim by Donald Mackintosh.The first folio of text is missing, as is that between pages 71 and 74. According to the contents list the text in the latter was on “How Ossian praiseth a woman he had seen in the night, tho’ he was in a deep sleep”. Poems marked * were considered by Duncan Kennedy ‘not so valuable, having found but one or two edditions of each, which makes them note complete, nor perhaps so pure, they being collected in...
Dates:
1774-1783.
Ossianic verse collected by Duncan Kennedy., 1774-1783.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.10
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are in Duncan Kennedy’s hand. Contents consists of two manuscripts (pages 1-90b, 91-168), bound together in board covers by the Highland Society of Scotland. The contents are chiefly altered versions of poems in Adv.MS.72.3.9. In general, only lines diverging from the latter are printed in ‘Leabhar na Feine’. There are notes passim by Donald Mackintosh, the Reverend James Macdonald and Dr Donald Smith. Pages iii-vi are additional.The contents are as follows....
Dates:
1774-1783.
Ossianic verse collected by Duncan Kennedy, Kilmelfort (born 1763), known as “Kennedy’s Collection”.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.72.3.9-72.3.10
Scope and Contents
Duncan Kennedy’s collection is described by John Francis Campbell as ‘the most interesting collection that I know’ (Adv.MS.72.3.10, page vi). Kennedy collected between the ages of 12 and 20 while travelling through Argyll and Lochaber. The poems are written down in a standardised fashion, i.e. in quatrains throughout and always preceded by an ‘argument’ (introduction) in English. Page references in each of the records are to the beginning of the ‘argument’.Adv.MS.72.3.9 was...
Dates:
1774-1783.
Ossianic verse headed 'Duan a Ghairibh'., 1752
Item
Identifier: MS.14856
Scope and Contents
A small booklet of 5 folios, measuring 15 x 9.3 cm. It is dated at the head of folio 1r: 1752. In the hand of Rev. Donald MacNicol. Formerly Acc.2152/24. Contains the following:"Duan a Ghairibh", beginning 'Erich a Chu n teridh chi mi 'n Longis ha do labhradh'. Contains verse, not written out in stanzas but presented as 44 stanzas of 4 lines, partly incomplete, and a final section of prose text, in 'Leabhar na Feinne', pp. 3-4. 'Leabhar na Feinne' mistakenly gives...
Dates:
1752
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.
Other writings of Alexander Carlyle., 1750-1803, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23917-23925