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:
Poem, “The Highland man’s observation on the alteration of the times. To the tune of the Tinclar’s occupation”., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.301
Scope and Contents
Twenty four-lined stanzas beginning:
‘Hersel is a highlan Shentleman,
Be old as Potell prig,
An money a woner I hae seen,
Among te lalan whig’.
The poem refers to turnpike roads and other changes in the Highlands.
Dates:
18th century.
Poem, titled ‘De causa gravitates ad Regiam Scientiarum Academiam’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.36
Scope and Contents
Poem in two books.
Dates:
14 August 1729.
Poem, titled, 'Epistle to a Lady on the Advantages of Literature to the Fair Sex'., December 1806.
Item
Identifier: MS.12832
Dates:
December 1806.
Poem, titled 'Twilight and Night' by William Tennant., 22 June 1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.1030, folio 54
Dates:
22 June 1830.
Poem, undated, beginning 'To honest Gavin the prince of Sooters', in the hand of Robert Fergusson, in a volume of Fergusson's ‘Poems’ (Edinburgh, 1773)., 3rd quarter of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6530 [L.C.124]
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century.
Poem, undated, of James Hogg, titled ‘Come down the brae Donald’, and article, undated, titled ‘The Two Vallies’., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1704, folios 65-67
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Poem 'Upon reading Ovids Tristia', inserted in ‘Ovids Tristia’ (London, 1681)., 1809.
Item
Identifier: MS.6588 [L.C.1975]
Poem written for posting on the doors of the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11299
Dates:
1802.
Poems addressed by John Stuart Blackie to 'Mary'., 1841.
File
Identifier: MS.2652
‘Poems addressed to Sir Walter Scott, &c.’, 1806-1838.
File
Identifier: MS.921
Scope and Contents
The volume is composed mainly of poems addressed to or about Sir Walter Scott, 1806-1832 (folios 2-77) and recollections of Scott, probably collected by John Gibson Lockhart when writing the ‘Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott’, 1824-1838 (folios 78-228).The papers include:Poem addressed to Stuart of Garth, ‘Brave Stuart, name without a blot’, written in the character of Scott in his daughter Sophia’s handwriting (folio 1);Poem on ‘Marmion’,...
Dates:
1806-1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Accounts of Sir Walter Scott and other documents relating to him.
Poems and a mock sermon (on marriage) in the hand of Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer.
File
Identifier: MS.17895
Scope and Contents
Various dates between 1743 and 1757 occur.
Dates:
1743-1757.
Poems and articles of Eurys I Rowlands.
File
Identifier: Acc.9383
Scope and Contents
With correspondence.
Dates:
1986-1987.
Poems and copies of poems by various authors, collected by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1954-1980, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26627
Scope and Contents
The writers include Derek Bowman and Sydney Tremayne.
Dates:
1954-1980, undated.
Poems and copies of poems in various hands, and historical notes in the hand of Robert Mylne., [1688, or after]-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2093
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'The Mysterie of Iniquitie, or the Revolution, deduced to the time of K.J. his being forced . . . to retire from England. Written by one whose head is as full of thoughts as the kingdom's of distractions'. A poem in dramatic form, introducing William and Mary, James VII, and various symbolical characters. It seems to have been written by a native of Scotland about the time of the Revolution. At the beginning is a modern description. From the same...
Dates:
[1688, or after]-early 19th century.
Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).
File
Identifier: MS.26799
Scope and Contents
Robert Crombie Saunders, was the editor of ‘Scottish Arts and Letters' and the 'Scots Independent’. Many of his poems appeared in literary magazines.The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts and typescript drafts of poems, (circa 1940-1969, undated (folio 1). There are several versions of each poem.
(ii) Letters to Saunders from Christopher Murray Grieve, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, 1943-1961, undated (folio 70);
(iii) Fair copies of poems, 1969, undated...
Dates:
[Circa1940]-1970, undated.
Poems and essays by various authors, including several poems of William Soutar, 1922, two of which are in his own hand and the rest in typescript., 1904-1945, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15873
Dates:
1904-1945, undated.
Poems and lecture notes of the Reverend William H Hamilton, minister of Leslie and Waulkmill.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19619-19621
Dates:
1902-1919, undated.
Poems and letters of James Hogg.
File
Identifier: MS.9634
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'A night piece.' Published as 'Verses to the comet of 1811' in ‘The works of the Ettrick shepherd’ (London, 1873), edited by Thomas Thomson, page 398. The printed text varies slightly from the manuscript and omits the second stanza. (For another incomplete manuscript of this poem, see MS.4805, folio 102 verso.) There is a note of ownership, 1842, by Andrew Sinclair, the surgeon and naturalist. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript of the second...
Dates:
1816-1838, undated.
Poems and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3788-3794
Scope and Contents
All, except the poems in MS.3791, are accompanied by transcripts.
Dates:
1881-1887, undated.
Poems and letters of the author and journalist William Henry ('Will H') Ogilvie (1869-1963); with photocopies of letters of his wife, Katherine, and other related papers. Included incorrectly is the typescript of "My mither's aunt and other verses" by William Ogilvie (1891-1939), Edinburgh architect.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26027-26029
Dates:
1909-1963.
Poems and letters of William Sydney Graham (1918-1986).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26019-26022
Scope and Contents
William Sydney Graham, who came from Greenock but spent much of his life in Cornwall, published several collections of poems between 1942 and 1977.
Dates:
1942-1984, undated.
Poems and manuscript notes, undated, some in the hand of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, in a bound volume of chap-books., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.6604 [L.C.6604]
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Poems and other items of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James IV., Late 16th century-first quarter of 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2063
Scope and Contents
Contains poems, impresas, anagrams, proverbs, corrections and emendations of the ‘Basilikon doron’ (folio 121), and drafts and copies of official letters (folios 235-236).
On folio iii is a note by Sir William Drummond, the poet's son, 'Papers of Secratarie Fowllers, all his owen hand writt, preserved as they ar by my father ... 1703'.
Dates:
Late 16th century-first quarter of 17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.