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 27 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of "The Works of Robert Burns..." (Liverpool, 1800), and "Reliques of Robert Burns" (London, 1808), both annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9852
Dates:
1800-1808.
Copy of an autograph verse prologue of Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10399
Scope and Contents
Verse begins "What needs this did about the town o` Lon`on...".
Dates:
circa 1790.
Copy of facsimile of "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" (Kilmarnock, 1786), known as the Kilmarnock Burns, collated with the Edinburgh edition (1787), annotated by Prof Robert Dewar and with his notes inserted.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11010
Dates:
1927.
"First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: MS.50700
Scope and Contents
The "First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns is the earliest collected work written by the poet. Written before he achieved national status following the publication of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' (1786), Burns himself explained the need to create the volume, hoping that after his death it would fall into the hands of someone who would appreciate their value.The "First Commonplace Book" contains some of Burns's earliest surviving work and contains examples of Burns's...
Dates:
1783-1785.
Letter, 1795, of Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, tipped into an edition of "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (1787).
Item
Identifier: Acc.14467
Dates:
1787, 1795.
Letter of Robert Burns to Captain John Gillespie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7973
Scope and Contents
Incorporating an early version of "Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo".
Dates:
circa 1790.
Manuscript of `The Battle of Sherra-moor` by Robert Burns, annotated by James Currie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13039
Dates:
circa 1790.
Manuscript poem of Robert Burns, "Answer to a Tiviotdale Farmer`s Wife`s Epistle".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7748
Scope and Contents
Containing textual variations from the version published in James Kinsley`s edition of "The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns".
Dates:
1787.
Manuscript poem of Robert Burns, "Kind Sir I`ve Read your Paper through".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8252
Dates:
? 1790.
Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House.
Record Group
Identifier: MSS.50701-50706
Dates:
1781-1832.
Papers of James Logie Robertson.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6578/1-3
Scope and Contents
James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot’s Hospital and George Watson’s College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies’ College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of ‘Hugh Haliburton’, include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.
1. corrected manuscript, circa 1880, of "Orellana: a Poem"2. corrected...
Dates:
[Circa 1880]-1889.
Papers of S Marshak.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3945
Scope and Contents
Including, chapter of autobiographical novel, "At the Beginning of Life", two poems and translations of poems of Burns and others.
Dates:
20th century.
Photocopies of two fragments of extempore verse in the hand of Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.4189
Dates:
1794 and undated.
Photocopy of autograph manuscript of Robert Burns, "Country Lassie".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10486
Dates:
circa 1780-1796.
Photocopy of letter of Robert Burns to William Cruikshank.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11053
Scope and Contents
Includes the verses "Written in Friar`s Carse Hermitage".
Dates:
? 1788.
Poem of Robert Bridges, "To Robert Burns"
File
Identifier: Acc.5617
Scope and Contents
With letter of Bridges to Sir Henry Newbolt.
Dates:
1901.
Poem of Robert Burns addressed to William Tytler of Woodhouselee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10610
Dates:
circa 1780-1790.
Poem of Robert Burns, "It was the Charming Month of May", in pencil inked over (possibly by another hand), with variants from published text.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9649
Dates:
1794.
Robert Burns: A volume concerning the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the poet`s birth gathered by the Boston Burns Club.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10847
Scope and Contents
Contains autograph letters, engraved portraits of Burns and circa 60 engravings illustrating the poems. Includes original letter of Burns (letter 712). Pamphlet "Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Burns..." is inlaid into the volume.
Dates:
1859.
Robert Burns, "Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (1794), with additional poems in manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9217
Dates:
1794.
Robert Burns "Poems" (Edinburgh, 1787).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10981
Scope and Contents
With names added in manuscript by Burns.
Dates:
1787.
Selected letters and poems of Robert Burns from the Library of Honresfield House., 1781-1795.
File
Identifier: MS.50701
Scope and Contents
LettersAinslie, RobertLetter, 29 May 1787, of Burns to Robert Ainslie with news of his travel. Folios 1-2.Ballantine, JohnLetter, 13 December 1786, of Burns to John Ballantine on his Edinburgh patrons. Folios 3-4.Burnes, WilliamLetter, 27 December 1781, of Burns to his father, William Burnes, on his ill-health and future prospects. Included is the title page of the catalogue of the sale of the manuscript and description...
Dates:
1781-1795.
Sheet of poetry of Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10172
Scope and Contents
Includes part of "Fete Champetre".
Dates:
circa 1780-1796.