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:
Poems and other works, chiefly of William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort to James IV., Late 16th century-mid 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2065
Scope and Contents
The volume contains 'Verces writen by sundrie hands' according to a note, 1655, of Sir William Drummond (folio 1). In addition to the poems of William Fowler, which are the majority, and some addressed to him, which are printed with his ‘Works’ (1914), the volume contains “Earle of Ancram's Psalmes”, in the poet William Drummond's hand (folio 50); Fowler's translation of Machiavelli's dedication of the Prince, with a draft of Fowler's dedication to the Laird of Buccleuch (folio 147); and...
Dates:
Late 16th century-mid 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.
Poems and short stories which have appeared in the 'Scotia Review'., [?1973-?1974]
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6329/6-7
Dates:
[?1973-?1974]
'Poems and songs cheifly (sic) in the Scottish dialect by Charles Lockhart Ramsay [subsequently of Fala], Edinburgh 1816', to which '-1835' has been added in pencil.
Item
Identifier: MS.9046
Scope and Contents
The volume contains ballads headed by dedications to various ladies, letters in verse addressed to various friends, and poems concerning or inspired by political events of the time.
Dates:
1816-1835.
Poems and songs of John Stuart Blackie, with a few of other persons., 1831-1892.
File
Identifier: MS.2650
Poems and songs of William MacRitchie, transcribed by George MacRitchie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8119
Dates:
1834.
Poems and songs of William MacRitchie, transcribed by his son, George.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6398
Dates:
1834.
Poems and verse epistles addressed to or about Sir Walter Scott., 1812-1832.
File
Identifier: MS.922
Dates:
1812-1832.
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 verses on various topics and occasions by Alexander Carlyle and by others., 1743-1802, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.23921
Poems, articles and other material of Marion Lochead., 1953-1967.
File
Identifier: MS.26193
Poems, ballads, epigrams, etc., some in Scots, with the title-page: 'Trifles light as Air. By Johnnie Grotts. Nemo onmibus horis sapit. 1806'., 1806.
File
Identifier: MS.2787
Poems, bearing dates from 1792 to 1850, by Robert Lochore, in an exercise-book., 1792-1850.
Item
Identifier: MS.3586
Poems by Alexander Fleming, probably the minister of Neilston, dedicated to Colonel William Mure of Caldwell., [Circa 1800.]
File
Identifier: MS.2775
‘Poems’ by Allan Ramsay, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1721, 1728), with manuscript additions.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9749-9750
Dates:
1721, 1728, undated.
‘Poems’ by Allan Ramsay, volume 1 (Edinburgh, 1721), with, inserted at the front, a manuscript of two poems in Ramsay's hand, and two pen sketches of heads., 1721, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9749
Scope and Contents
Tipped in to page 269 is a press cutting (folio 2) concerning the song ‘Polwart on the green’. On page xxviii is a contemporary note of the numbers of subscribers to the ‘Poems’.
Dates:
1721, undated.
‘Poems’ by Allan Ramsay, volume 2 (Edinburgh, 1728)., 1728, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9750
Scope and Contents
On page 289 is a note identifying 'Bonny Kate'.
Dates:
1728, undated.
Poems by David Macbeth Moir, some of them versions of work published in "Blackwood's Magazine" and elsewhere, with some notes and related matter., 1822-1849.
File
Identifier: MS.6520
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was for a time in the hands of Thomas Aird, editor of ‘The poetical works of D.M. Moir’ (Edinburgh, 1852), and critical and other comments, in his hand and initialled, appear throughout the volume.
A detailed note on the contents has been placed at the beginning of the volume.
Dates:
1822-1849.
Poems by Olaf Gunnlaugson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.14
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 41. Olai Gunnlogii Reliqua Poemata Majora præter Speculum Temporis. Autographum unicum.`
Dates:
Undated.
'Poems by William Drummond of Hawthornden, transcribed from the original editions', printed in the years 1616-1630., 1616-1630.
File
Identifier: MS.2068
Scope and Contents
The poems were transcribed in the nineteenth century.
Dates:
1616-1630.
Poems, chiefly elegies and personal satires, and Jacobite political satires, and a few other documents, Scottish and English, chiefly of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century., 1644-1821, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2092
Scope and Contents
Several of the papers are in the hand of Robert Mylne.
Dates:
1644-1821, undated.
Poems, chiefly of Margaret Maxwell Inglis., 1826-1882, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2071-2072
Dates:
1826-1882, undated.