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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:

Poetry of Alastair Reid., 1953-1981, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27446-27457
Scope and Contents

Alastair Reid both wrote poetry himself and translated work by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and others. MSS.27446-27448 contain his own poems, and MSS.27449-27457 his translations.

Dates: 1953-1981, undated.

Poetry of Ruthven Todd., 1925-1978, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26827-26833
Scope and Contents

Some of these appeared in his published volumes of verse, or in literary magazines.

Dates: 1925-1978, undated.

Poetry of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1930-1974, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26116-26127
Scope and Contents

Most of Sydney Goodsir Smith's poems in Scots were published in literary periodicals and in several small volumes of his poetry. His 'Collected poems, 1941-1975' (London, 1975), contains a selection of his work and not the whole corpus.

Dates: 1930-1974, undated.