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 2 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, poetry and prose of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House., 1796-1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.50703
Scope and Contents
LettersArchibald, Joseph JamiesonLetter, 8 November 1825, of Scott to Joseph Jamieson Archibald on his admiration for Robert Burns and the progress of John Gibson Lockhart in London. Folio 1.Ballantyne, JamesLetter, 8 July 1826, of Scott to James Ballantyne on his work for ‘The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte’. Folios 2-3.Bell, JohnLetter, 7 March 1816, of Scott to John Bell on collecting Jacobite songs. Folios 4-5....
Dates:
1796-1832.
Letters mostly to Lord Byron of correspondents with surnames from Silvestrini-Tournier., 1810-1823, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43508
Scope and Contents
The letters to Lord Byron have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. When first made available for consultation, before foliation, the wrapper of Sir George Sinclair had been housed in Ms.43449. It was moved to f.7 of this folder on cataloguing.Letters of Francesca (Fanny) Silvestrini to Lord Byron, 1819 and undated: folios 1-6;Wrapper of a letter probably of Sir George Sinclair to Lord Byron, 1813: folio 7;Letters of Constance...
Dates:
1810-1823, undated.