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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 of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' published as ‘Sangschaw’., [1925, or before], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27001
Scope and Contents

The papers include an early list of contents (folio 1), some typescripts (folio 2), and an undated manuscript copy, possibly made in the 1960s (folio 4). The copy does not include the foreword by John Buchan or the opinions on Hugh MacDiarmid's poetry, but is otherwise complete.

Dates: [1925, or before], undated.

Poems of --Drummond of Balloch, apparently unpublished.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.11
Scope and Contents

The volume is principally made up of the long poem `Phyllis. In four sections`, but only the first two sections appear. Two other poems, `Riddles` (folio 66 verso) and `Aenigmatum Centuria altera` (folio 78) complete the manuscript.

There is an inscription on the flyleaf: `Conditur exigua Lepidus Ballocus in Urna/ Cui natura parens, sorsque noverca fuit.’

Dates: 18th century.

Poems of George Algernon Fothergill inspired by Robert Burns.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14570
Scope and Contents

The poems covers observations on Burns Nights, as well as on whisky and haggis.

Fothergill noted that he resided at the Craigiehall Estate, just outside Edinburgh, when he wrote all but three of the poems. This view appears repeatedly throughout the volume.

Dates: 1911-1927.

Poems of George Lauder, transcribed, 17th century, chiefly from printed copies indicated in the manuscript.

 File
Identifier: MS.1806
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the following poems. (i) Valedictory Address, 1622. (Folio 1.)(ii) On the Execution of Charles I. Printed: Delft, 1649. (Folio 2.)(iii) 'Good Wishes to His Highnes the Prince upon His Birth Day, 14 November'. (Folio 3.)(iv) 'The wnconstant Lover', 1624. (Folio 3 verso.)(v) 'For the Heroycall L: Colonel Lauder ... A Christmas Carol'. Signed: F G. (Folio 4.)(vi) 'The Souldiers Wishe'. Printed: Edinburgh, J...
Dates: 17th century.

Poems of Hafez of Shiraz.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.2805
Scope and Contents

Diwan-i Hafiz, includes poems in Persian.

Dates: 1325-1390.

Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.

 File
Identifier: MS.569
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘On the laying the Foundation of the High School of Edinburgh, 24th June, 1777’ (folio i);(ii) ‘Winter Hymn’ with a note, 26 January 1829 (folio 2);(iii) ‘Morning Hymn’, endorsed, ‘Written out 1825, composed chiefly in a dream at Canaan Lodge [Edinburgh] one beautiful morning in August, 1825’; two copies (folio 4);(iv) ‘Ink loquitur’, endorsed, ‘(Impromptu) to Steuart of Allantoun, the translator of Sallust, who...
Dates: 1777-1829, undated.

Poems of John Donne transcribed by William Drummond of Hawthornden; and notes on civil law taken by William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort to James IV., 1580-early 17th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2067
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows.

'Thirre poems belonginge to Jhon Don transcribed by William Drummond', used in John Donne's ‘Poems’ (Oxford, 1912), edited by Herbert J C Grierson. (Folio 1.)

Notes and accounts in the hand of Sir William Drummond. (Folios 1 verso, 39 verso-40.)

Notes on civil law taken by William Fowler in Paris (folio 49), signed, 1580 (folio 65).

Dates: 1580-early 17th century.

Poems of John Dunlop of Gairbraid., 1853-1856.

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Identifier: MS.9273
Scope and Contents

Most of the manuscript consists of 'Rhymed Reason', a didactic poem annotated by the author.

Dates: 1853-1856.

Poems of John Johnston, with numerous corrections by the author.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.24
Dates: Late 16th and early 17th century.

Poems of John Skinner (1721-1807), Episcopal Minister at Longside, in the hand of George Skene, Episcopal Minister at Forfar.

 File
Identifier: MS.3757
Scope and Contents

Inserted (folio iv) is a letter addressed to the donor, the Very Reverend Alan C Don, about a reference to another manuscript of John Skinner's poems in P Buchan, ‘The smugglers of Peterhead’.

Sixteen of the poems appear to be unpublished.

Dates: Mid 18th century-1834.

Poems of John Skinner, Episcopal Minister of Longside, in the author’s handwriting.

 File
Identifier: MS.1022
Scope and Contents

The poems are all apparently unpublished except the ‘Letter to a Friend, on giving up a farm’, which differs from the printed version. The poems are followed by prose excerpts from Ossian in another hand.

Dates: Mid 18th century-late 18th century.

Poems of Ólaf Gunnlaugsson.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.8.10

Poems of Ólafr Gunnlaugsson.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.12

Poems of Ólafr Gunnlaugsson.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.11