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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:

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4690
Scope and Contents

Comprising manuscript drafts and typescripts of five poems, with galley proofs, typescripts and correspondence concerning "Akros".

Dates: 1967-1968.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12199

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11848
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Glen`s poetry, critical works on Hugh MacDiarmid, genealogy of the Glen family and Akros publications, including editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1958-1998.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9045
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, a novel, autobiography, essays and articles.

Dates: 1964-1985.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7147
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, essays, bibliographies and other literary work.

With Duncan Glen, "Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance", and poems of, and essays concerning, Hugh Macdiarmid.

Dates: 1962-1977.

Papers of Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1875-1920), Munro Lecturer in Celtic, Cambridge University, relating to the preparation of editions of Gaelic texts.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14870-14872
Scope and Contents

Due to the War and Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin’s early death, neither work was published. The papers were used however by Professor John Fraser in publishing his collection of Quiggin’s Book of the Dean of Lismore transcripts, ‘Poems from the Book of the Dean of Lismore’.

Dates: 1st quarter of 20th century.

Papers of Eric Linklater.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10155/1-98
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, articles, broadcast talks and poems, with correspondence.

Dates: 1902-1974 and undated.

Papers of Francis George Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9014
Scope and Contents

Includes notes, essays, poems and correspondence.

With 13 letters of George Campbell Hay.

Dates: 1925-1957 and undated.

Papers of G S Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8002
Scope and Contents

Comprising manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems and critical work, with 86 letters from correspondents, including Ronald Bottrall, Lawrence Durrell, William Empson, and Kathleen Raine.

Dates: 1948-1978.

Papers of Gael Turnbull.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10256
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry and prose, together with scripts of dramatizations for radio.

Dates: 1953-1990.

Papers of Gavin Ewart.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8628
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of circa 400 poems.

Dates: 1962-1973.

Papers of George Bruce.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6154
Scope and Contents

Including literary notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, and 27 letters to Bruce from correspondents including Ivor Brown, Neil Gunn and Joseph Macleod.

Dates: circa 1937-1974.

Papers of George Bruce.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11260
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and 89 letters and copies of letters.

Dates: 1944-1995 and undated.

Papers of George Bruce.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12195
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and correspondence.

Dates: 1928-2002.

Papers of George S Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8198
Scope and Contents

Including typescript drafts of poems, lectures, articles and reviews.

Dates: circa 1949-1979.

Papers of George Sutherland Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9612
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of poems, articles, lectures and reviews, with correspondence.

Dates: circa 1943-1980.

Papers of Hamish Macmillan Brown

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13940

Papers of Ian Macbeth Robertson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11440
Scope and Contents

Includes poems, diaries and fragments of diaries, with various literary and military papers.

Dates: 1936-circa 1969.

Papers of Isobel V S Dunlop, containing correspondence, music, poetry and related material.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9121/1-133
Scope and Contents

Includes music scores, correspondence and papers concerning the Saltire Society and Saltire Music Group.

Dates: 1922-1974.

Papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10193
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.

With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.

Dates: 1935-1987 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents

Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.

Dates: 1946-1975.

Papers of James Bolivar Manson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9117
Scope and Contents

Includes poems, writings and press cuttings.

Dates: circa 1850-circa 1869.

Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on language in poetry., 1789, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.24508
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of the rhythme of Greek and Latin verse', undated. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 236. (ii) 'Of English verse', undated. (Folio 8.) Much of this concerns Milton's poetry. Monboddo number 241. (iii) Papers on poetry in general, 1789, undated. (Folio 44.) Two items (folios 44 and 48) were intended for the ‘Origin and progress of language’, but were not used. Includes Monboddo numbers 243, 232, 242.

Dates: 1789, undated.

Papers of James K Annand.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10803
Scope and Contents

Includes poetry notebooks, typescripts of poems and correspondence.

Dates: 1925-1992.