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:
Corrected typescripts of a poetry sequence of Robert Alan Jamieson, "Shoormal".
File
Identifier: Acc.9636
Scope and Contents
With a cantata.
Dates:
1986.
Manuscripts and typescripts of fifty poems of Robert Alan Jamieson, with a prose article on Hugh MacDiarmid.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10781/1-2
Scope and Contents
These manuscripts and typescripts represent Robert Alan Jamieson's work in this medium since the publication of his last volume of poems in 1986. They are intended for inclusion in a forthcoming collection, but have been compared with the published versions which have already appeared in periodicals, where this has been possible. As the collection itself has not yet been published, the main assessment of then has been a comparison between the various manuscript and typescript versions of...
Dates:
Circa 1989-1993.