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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:

Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27495-27498
Scope and Contents

Robin Fulton was born in Arran and became a schoolteacher. From 1967 to 1976 he edited the literary magazine 'Lines Review'. His work is mostly poetry, but also includes reviews, translations and literary studies. The papers consist of drafts and proofs of poems (MSS.27495-27497), and editorial papers for 'Lines Review' (MS.27498).

Dates: 1963-1972.

'Poetical Souvenir and Cabinet of Music and Drawing: Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, 1840' containing poetry, mottoes, songs with music, and drawings of Scottish scenery, finely written in a variety of calligraphic hands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8934
Scope and Contents

The choice of shorter poems and the type of ornament suggests some affinity with the work of James Cargill (see MSS.8931-8932), of which it presents a considerable refinement.

Dates: 1840.

Poetry and miscellaneous papers of members of the Richards family., 1778, 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.20400
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Poetry, 19th century, of Maria D Richards and other members of the Richards family (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers of the Richards family including a letter, 1778, of James Jebb, theological writer and the Richards family's newsletter ‘Kith and kin’ of 1884 and 1887 produced by Anne Richards (folio 28).

Dates: 1778, 19th century.

Poetry and notes of Sir Gilbert Elliot., 1760, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12820
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Verses addressed to Admiral John Elliot on Thurot's defeat, (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous verses, undated (folio 4); (iii) Notes by the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot, undated, describing manuscript verses found by him at Minto (folio 69).

Dates: 1760, undated.

Poetry and prose chiefly by members of the Strange family., 1750-1828, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14258
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Verses, 1765-1828, undated, chiefly by members of the Strange family, notably Sir Thomas A Strange, but several pieces have other attributions, including Charles Burney, 1776 (folio 3), John Dunlop, Lord Provost of Glasgow, 1799 (folio 18) and Charles James Fox, statesman, undated (folios 23-24);(ii) Prose including Sir Robert Strange's autobiography (folio 31) which was published in James Dennistoun's Memoirs; an extract from a letter...
Dates: 1750-1828, undated.

Poetry notebook of James K Annand.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9668
Scope and Contents

Contains drafts of Annand`s, "Songs from Carmina Burana. Translated into Scots Verse" (1978).

Dates: circa 1978.

Poetry notebook of Maurice Lindsay.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8507
Scope and Contents

Contains drafts of "A Net to Catch the Winds".

Dates: 1981.

Poetry notebooks and other papers of Robert Crawford (1877-1931).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26023-26026
Scope and Contents

Robert Crawford, who was a miner in Ayrshire and later in Stirlingshire, published three collections of poems and also wrote philosophical essays.

Dates: 1920-1931, undated.