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 the School of Poets, mostly comprising poems written by members but also including some earlier administrative, promotional and miscellaneous papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13703/1-5
Scope and Contents
The School of Poets was founded in 1981 by Tessa Ransford to provide a meeting place for poets, new or experienced, to encourage them to learn from each other. The School meets monthly (excluding August and December) in the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh.
Dates:
1983-2015.
Papers of the Seaforth family., 1788-1834.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6396-6401
Papers of the Shaw family, Corgarff.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5953
Scope and Contents
Including five school books, a collection of verse, and the autobiography, circa 1860, of Alexander Shaw.
Dates:
19th century.
Papers of the Strange family., 1718-1854, 1955, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14253-14259
Dates:
1718-1854, 1955, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Sir Robert Strange, the engraver, and his brother-in-law, Andrew Lumisden, secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, encompassing the period from the '45 Rebellion to the early 19th century, with some earlier family documents and later genealogical material.
Papers of Valerie Gillies.
File
Identifier: Acc.8791
Scope and Contents
Comprises manuscripts and typescripts of 12 poems, with typescripts, proofs and a printed copy of "Bed of Stone".
Dates:
1981-1984.
Papers of W S Graham, originally from the collection of Alan Clodd.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12468
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and letters, mostly to Alan Clodd.
Dates:
circa 1937-1981.
Papers of William Hutchison Murray and Anne Burnet Murray
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13936
Dates:
1864-2012, undated.
Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray., ? 1828-? 1863.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42572-42573
Papers of William Stuart Henry.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6177
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, sketches, poems, and correspondence concerning his work.
Dates:
circa 1942-1967.
Papers, probably of the Stuart family including letters, notes, poetry and other fragments with some relating to Jacobitism., 1744-1775.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/285
Dates:
1744-1775.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Miscellaneous Papers of the Forbes Family.
Papers relating to poetry of Gavin Ewart., 1939-1996.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12908/1-31
Papers relating to the literary activities of George Sutherland Fraser.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.4681/1-27
Scope and Contents
Comprising typescript versions of poems and typescripts of lectures and broadcast talks, with selection of literary correspondence.
Dates:
Circa 1940-circa 1969.
Papers, undated, of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound concerning classics and literature., Early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.12811
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Notes and translations from, and critical essays concerning, the works of Horace (folio 1);
(ii) 'Apology for Numa, Horace & Virgil' (folio 71);
(iii) 'History of Patrician desertations' (folio 91);
(iv) 'The Compendious Orator' (folio 95);
(v) 'Dennis Bond from the banks of Phlegethon to the Club on the banks of the Thames' (folio 105);
(vi) 'The History of Robin Slip-String the Schoolmaster of Goatham' (folio 116);
(vii) 'Rory Dall, a burlesque' (folio...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family.
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Literary papers, apparently of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound of Melgund and Kynynmound (died 1741), Advocate, second son of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, and father-in-law of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet of Minto.
Papers, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Greek literature., Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.24512
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) A comparison of Homer and Virgil by Matthew Raper, undated. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 210.
(ii) Translations from Cicero's works, undated. (Folio 3.) They include an unidentified dialogue on wisdom. Monboddo number 204.
(iii) Papers on the philosophical works of the Earl of Shaftesbury, 1783, undated. (Folio 13.) That on the ‘Rhapsody’ is related to the ‘Origin and progress of language iv, pages 344-367. Monboddo numbers 267, 272.
(iv) 'Aedes...
Dates:
Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
Papers, undated, of Lord Minto, Lord Justice Clerk., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.12814
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Prose fragment, undated, with a note by the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot “The disappearing of mercury in Justice Clerk's handwriting, a jeu d'esprit addressed to some lady” (folio 1); (ii) Legal notes, chiefly on English law, undated, probably by Lord Minto, Lord Justice Clerk (folio 3).
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
‘Paradise of daynty devises’, compiled by Richard Edwards, 'copied in October 1798 from a MS. copy made by the late Mr Herbert, now in the Collection of Francis Douce Esqr., by John Brand, in Somerset House'. , 1577.
File
Identifier: MS.2754
Scope and Contents
There is one poem, 'Upon the Life and death of the noble Earle of Penbrooke', by W Hunnis (folio 39), which seems not to be in any of the surviving editions. After the copy of William Herbert's manuscript there are copies of other poems of the Paradise: numbers 36, 76, 80, and 118 of H E Rollins's edition (folios 113, 146-148).Interleaved with the volume there is a manuscript copy (folio 115) by Herbert (see folio ii) of Hew Rhodes, ‘Boke of nurture’, printed by Thomas Petyt, now...
Dates:
1577.
‘Parish rhymes, [by] V.O.B. North Berwick, 1872.' Manuscript and printed poems by Peter Macmorland, Minister of North Berwick, written or pasted in an exercise-book.
Item
Identifier: MS.1807
Scope and Contents
Also included are newspaper cuttings on various subjects and a copy of the minute passed by the Kirk Session of North Berwick on Peter Macmorland's resignation.
Dates:
1872-1873.
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1745
Scope and Contents
Among several citations from bardic verse are one from Tadhg Dali Ó Huiginn (died circa 1591), and one from a poem by Eoghan Mac an Bhaird (died 1609) on the death of Ruaidhri Ó Domhnaill, Earl of Tirconnel, which took place in Rome in 1608.
Dates:
17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts: part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, and answers of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, to certain interrogatories put to him concerning his negotiations with Spain for the marriage of Charles I.
Part of a letter of John Leyden, regarding the Academy of Physics, Edinburgh, 1798, with the signed end of a letter, and verses in his autograph, undated., 1798, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.786, folios 66-68
Part of Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Gaelic matters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.14
Dates:
1807-1824.
Part of the Ossianic collection of the Reverend Alexander Campbell of Portree (1770-1811).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.3
Dates:
1798-1806.
Passages, from unidentified poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' in manuscript and typescript., [1925, or before]-[1978, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27032-27033
Dates:
[1925, or before]-[1978, or before.]
'Passe-temps' by Henry Mackenzie: poems, 1763-1766, some published., 1763-1770.
File
Identifier: MS.2535
Scope and Contents
There is a postscript, 1770, by Henry Mackenzie commenting on the value of the poems (folio 88), and prose remarks, 1764, on various subjects (folio 89 verso).
Dates:
1763-1770.