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:
Letters of Alfred Tennyson to John Murray III, with a marked proof of the poem, "Helen`s Tower"., 1859-1886.
File
Identifier: MS.42570
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-2 : letter, 31 October 1859, of Alfred Tennyson to John Murray III thanking him for having sent a copy of the "Quarterly Review";folios 3-4 : letter, 26 October 1886, of Alfred Tennyson to John Murray III thanking him for the gift of a set of casts of coins of the twelve Caesars.Folio 5 : marked proof, ? 1862 or before, of Alfred Tennyson`s poem, "Helen`s Tower". The poem was written at the request of Lord Dufferin for the folly he...
Dates:
1859-1886.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Blackley to Blackwood., 1812-1905.
File
Identifier: MS.40107
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and, where required, by date under each name.Blackley, Thomas, 1827: folios 1-2;Blackley, William, 1844: folios 3-8;Blackley, William L., 1870: folios 9-12;Blackmore, Edwin, 1877-1905: folios 13-23:includes letter, 1905, of Edmond Warre to John Murray IV: folio 23;Blackwell, Benjamin, 1903: folios 24-25;Blackwell, J., 1841-1851: folios 26-29;...
Dates:
1812-1905.