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:
Paste-up of ‘Eadar Samhradh is Foghar’ by Professor Derick S Thomson., 1967.
Item
Identifier: MS.14970
"Penson's short progress into Holland, Flanders, and France, with remarques, written by Thomas Penson, Anno Domini 1690", and account of a tour made in the second half of 1687.
Item
Identifier: MS.3003
Scope and Contents
The places described in most detail are Rotterdam, Delft, Leyden, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp, Lille, Paris, and Versailles. Thomas Penson describes monuments and other sights, sometimes very fully (e.g., the museum of the Academy at Leyden), institutions, ceremonies, the life of the people, and his personal experiences and difficulties as a traveller.The book, which appears to have been written only for distribution in manuscript, is decorated with illustrations and other...
Dates:
1690.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
1818-2011, undated.
Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12578/1-45
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the life and work of the novelist, poet and writer Naomi Mitchison. Includes personal correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, press cuttings, family papers and photographs.Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, née Haldane, was born in Edinburgh in 1897. She was the youngest child of Louisa Kathleen Haldane, née Trotter, and John Scott Haldane (1860-1936). Her elder brother was the biologist J. B. S. 'Jack' Haldane (1892–1964).Naomi attended the Dragon School...
Dates:
1836-2002
Personal papers concerning William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn and his family; with miscellaneous literary papers., After 1916-1959, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.50246
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular subject spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1927-1936.Papers relating to the children of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.Commemorative offprint, 1927, of the notice in the ‘Scotsman’, 23 June 1927, of the birth of Ellinor Fairbairn. Folio 1.Manuscript and typescript notes, 1932-1936, of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn recording...
Dates:
After 1916-1959, undated.
Photocopies of a notebook of the major narrative poems and other notes of John Smith.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11273
Dates:
circa 1880.
Photocopies of documents formerly at Yester House., 1673-1739.
File
Identifier: MS.14810
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Poem in the hand of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale: ‘On the death of Lady Sophia Hay who dyed at Yester the 29th of April 1678 and of her age the 13th yeare’ (folio 1);(ii) Extract of the blazoning of the coat of arms borne by Sir James Hay, 1st Baronet of Linplum, 10 February 1673 (folio 4);(iii) Newsheet, Edinburgh 1715, concerning fighting between the Jacobites and the forces commanded by the Duke of Argyll (folio 5);...
Dates:
1673-1739.
Photocopies of five poems and four letters of Robert Rendall.
File
Identifier: Acc.5405
Dates:
1943-1950 and undated.
Photocopies of "Love: Lyrics from the Streets of Edinburgh", 1993, and "A Handful of Dream: Lyrics from the Grassmarket", 1994, of Trevor Morrison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10926
Dates:
1993-1994.
Photocopies of manuscript legal notes and three poems of Robert Louis Stevenson.
File
Identifier: Acc.7482
Dates:
circa 1875.
Photocopies of manuscripts, partly autograph, of poems and prose of Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet, of Auchinleck.
File
Identifier: Acc.10862
Dates:
circa 1800-1825.
Photocopies of notes, transcriptions and poems of William Stuart Henry.
File
Identifier: Acc.9127
Dates:
circa 1965-1975
Photocopies of published versions of several poems., 1946-1986.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/141
Photocopies of ten letters, 1926-1942, of William Soutar to Mr and Mrs William Mackenzie.
File
Identifier: Acc.10823
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of three poems, undated, of Soutar and related letter, 1958, of Alexander Scott.
Dates:
1926-1958 and undated.
Photocopies of the "Complete Poems" of Duncan Glen, with corrections and annotations by the author.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9298
Dates:
1965-1986.
Photocopies of "The Stirling Stanzas", a poem of Seamus Heaney.
File
Identifier: Acc.10395
Scope and Contents
With a letter of Heaney to Alan Forrester, Stirling University.
Dates:
1990.
Photocopies of three poems of William Blake.
File
Identifier: Acc.5196
Dates:
circa 1780-circa 1827.
Photocopies of two documents and verses concerning English Jacobites.
File
Identifier: Acc.7261
Dates:
circa 1746.
Photocopies of two fragments of extempore verse in the hand of Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.4189
Dates:
1794 and undated.
Photocopy of a corrected typescript of a poem of William Soutar, "The Auld Tree".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8347
Dates:
circa 1920-circa 1943.