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 1 Collection or Record:
Manuscripts of 'Bride of Abydos: canto I', 'Lament of Tasso', and first draft of 'Werner', all by Lord Byron; with some related correspondence and an article on 'Werner' by Frederick Leveson Gower., 1813-1914, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43323
Scope and Contents
This volume contains manuscripts relating to three poems written by Byron – ‘Bride of Abydos’, ‘Lament of Tasso’ and ‘Werner’. The content has been listed in the order in which it appears in the volume. All manuscripts are in the hand of Byron, although some dates have been added by John Murray.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions.Folios 1-5, 26, 29, 44, 46, 54, 56, 70 and 75-81...
Dates:
1813-1914, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts and fair copies mainly of the narrative poetry of Lord Byron.
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Manuscripts mostly of and concerning 'The Bride of Abydos', a poem by Lord Byron.