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:
Photocopy of a manuscript poem by James Leslie Mitchell, 'To Marguerite' (Margaret Hart Miller)., [1918.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26109, folios 67-71
Dates:
[1918.]
Photocopy of a manuscript poem of Allan Ramsay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6842
Dates:
circa 1710-circa 1758.
Photocopy of a manuscript poem of John Buchan, "The Semitic Spirit Speaks".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6475
Dates:
circa 1902.
Photocopy of a notebook of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’, titled 'Explorations in search of a way of speaking'., 1955-1956.
Item
Identifier: MS.27432
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains notes on poetry and style in James Hyman Singer, “Burns Singer's” own work (folio 3), reviews, articles, notes on the fishing industry, and many drafts of poems. Some of the latter were published in the ‘Collected poems’ (London, 1970).
Dates:
1955-1956.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary manuscripts and correspondence of the poet James Hyman Singer (1928-1964) who wrote under the name 'Burns Singer'.
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Notebooks containing drafts of poems, prose pieces and jottings of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’.
Photocopy of a poem of George Mackay Brown, entitled "Michael Sheridan".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12320
Dates:
1994.
Photocopy of a transcript and description by Terry L Meyers of a notebook, 1876, of William Sharp containing his play, "Ariadne in Naxos" and poem "Beatrice".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10954
Dates:
circa 1994.
Photocopy of anonymous manuscript, "The Custom House Club. An Epic Poem", Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7741
Scope and Contents
Humorous rhyming poem ridiculing men`s clubs and a particular group of gentlemen. Mock epic style employing a procession, feast,
ballad, etc.
Dates:
1815.
Photocopy of autograph manuscript of Robert Burns, "Country Lassie".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10486
Dates:
circa 1780-1796.
Photocopy of letter of Robert Burns to William Cruikshank.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11053
Scope and Contents
Includes the verses "Written in Friar`s Carse Hermitage".
Dates:
? 1788.
Photocopy of poem in Welsh concerning Scotland, by Eurys I Rowlands.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9656
Dates:
1988.
Photocopy of poem John Bellenden, "The Benner of Peetie".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5924
Dates:
early 16th century.
Photograph of manuscript poem of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7483
Dates:
circa 1870-circa 1890.
Photographs and transcripts of poems by Allan Ramsay, with related correspondence.
File
Identifier: MS.9748
Scope and Contents
The collection was made by Professor John Burns Martin for his edition (with J W Oliver, completed by A M Kinghorn and A Law) of ‘The works of Allan Ramsay’, (Scottish Text Society, 1951-1974).The contents of the collection are as follows.(i) Photostats of Allan Ramsay's autograph manuscript of fourteen poems, now in the Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California (H.M.211). (Folio 1.)(ii) Photostats of a manuscript, now in the Huntington Library...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 18th century, 1929.
Photographs of a poem in holograph entitled, 'Verses addresst to the Mavis Well which flows into the Gardens of Mavis Bank' by Allan Ramsay, inserted at the end of his 'Poems' (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii., [1728, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.805 [L.C.1149]
Dates:
[1728, or after.]
Photographs of five pages of MS. Lat. Q.v.1, 112 in the M E Saltuikov-Shchedrin Library in Saint Petersburg: Hours of Mary, Queen of Scots.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, written and illuminated circa 1430, contains verses in French in Mary`s hand, most of which are reproduced here.
Placed with the photographs is a letter concerning them from Ronald Munro Ferguson to Lord Rosebery, 1903.
Dates:
Circa 1430.
Photographs of riddles and verses given to Isabella McTurk by Jane Welsh Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.7322
Dates:
circa 1828.
Photographs of the Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany in prose and verse written by John Asloan early in the reign of James V of Scotland (1513-1542)., Early 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.335
Photographs of the Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany in prose and verse written by John Asloan early in the reign of James V of Scotland (1513-1542)., Early 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.336
Photographs of the Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany in prose and verse written by John Asloan early in the reign of James V of Scotland (1513-1542).
Series
Identifier: MSS.335-336
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Photographs of the leaves of the Glenquoich visitors' book containing the names of friends and relatives who visited the Ellices' estates at Invergarry during the late summer and autumn of each year from 1846 to 1863.
File
Identifier: MS.15197
Scope and Contents
The book appears to have belonged to Katherine Jane Ellice, first wife of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), who died in April 1864. Each visitor was asked to sign the book, adding the dates of arrival and departure, his profession, his object in coming and any remarks or complaints. Several took the opportunity to write in verses or poems or to make drawings, which range in size from thumbnail sketches to full-page drawings. Latterly, small photographs of many of the visitors...
Dates:
1846-1863.
Photographs, postcards, letters and cards and other miscellaneous papers collected by Rose Ethel Bassin., 1945-1950, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14938
Scope and Contents
Includes the following: postcards and photographs (folios 1-29), a poem by Rose Ethel Bassin (folio 34), and letters and cards from Elizabeth Maclachlan, dance teacher, London, 1945-1950 (folios 38-46).
Dates:
1945-1950, undated.
Photostat of a Chaucerian poem of 49 lines, beginning 'Devise prowes and eke humylitee', together with a note in the same hand of the date of birth of James IV, which could only have been written after his accession in 1488., [1488, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folio 37
Scope and Contents
The scribe was probably James Gray, priest and notary in Dunkeld. See “The Scribe of the King's Quair” by G Neilson, in ‘The Athenaeum’ (1899), pages 835-836.
Dates:
[1488, or after.]
Photostat of a manuscript of the poem, 'The Telegraph'., 1796.
Item
Identifier: MS.3824