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:
Papers of and concerning Arthur and Augusta Stanley., 1867-1881.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42562-42564
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1867-1881.
Two poems concerning Augusta Stanley., Circa 1876.
File
Identifier: MS.42564
Scope and Contents
(i) Manuscript of a poem, "Dying Words", by an unknown author, ?inspired by an observation made by Augusta Stanley; and,
(ii) printed poem, "In memory of the Lady Augusta Stanley", by Elizabeth "Bessie" Charles. The poem has been inscribed to Madame
Loyson.
Dates:
Circa 1876.