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 4 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Sylvia Thompson, of and relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Crombie Saunders and William Sydney Graham; with copies of published works of William Sydney Graham and Robert Crombie Saunders.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13390/1-8
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942, 1945, 1955, 1966-2008.
Successive typescript, printed and postcard versions of poem of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Net/Planet", and photographs of final version; with a letter to 'Private Eye' and a copy of issue 11 of the 'Private Tutor' magazine.
File
Identifier: Acc.4652
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Net/Planet' Poem
Original typescript, [circa 1966]
Form 3, 15 December 1966.
Proof of postcard published by the Wild Hawthorn Press, 1968.
2 colour photographs, undated.
Carbon copy of letter to Private Eye concerning 'The Dancers Inherit the Party', 1970.
'Private Tutor', number 11, May 1970.
Dates:
[Circa 1966]-1970, undated.
Two letters and four poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Heather Scott, with various publications given by Finlay to Scott.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13441
Scope and Contents
A small collection of papers, publications and artefacts of and relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay. The donor of the collection, Heather Scott (née Fretwell), was a friend of Finlay’s in the 1960s, and much of the material dates from this period.
Dates:
ca.1961-1962; with some later items, 1998, 1999.