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 3 Collections and/or Records:
Literary papers of James B Caird.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11108
Scope and Contents
Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles and talks.
Dates:
1931-1989.
Papers of James B Caird.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10193
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.
With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.
Dates:
1935-1987 and undated.
Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents
Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.
Dates:
1946-1975.