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 11 Collections and/or Records:
Annotated typescripts of eight poems of W S Graham.
File
Identifier: Acc.11274
Dates:
1941-1977 and undated.
Four letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Nataly Nesterenko; with two possibly unpublished poems of W S Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13263
Scope and Contents
Nataly Nesterenko was married to William Featherston, a Canadian artist, and the couple were friends of W S and Nessie Graham. The friendship survived the Featherston`s divorce and the letters show the Graham`s concern for Nataly Nesterenko during a difficult period in her life. The two typescript poems are untitled, but the first lines are ...
Dates:
1972-1979.
Letter of William Sydney Graham to Nessie Dunsmuir, written on fly-leaf of first issue of `Poetry Scotland`, discussing current Scottish poetry and poets.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13679
Dates:
1944.
Letters and postcards, 1970-1980 and undated, of W.S. Graham to William Featherston, with a few letters of Nessie Graham and others; typescript, carbon typescript and photocopied typescript of draft sections of long poems, 1958 and undated, including `The Dark Dialogues` and `With the Dulle Griet in Canada`; silk screen print portrait of W.S. Graham by William Featherston; and CD and audio-cassette of BBC radio broadcast by W.S. Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13163
Scope and Contents
William Featherston, a Canadian artist, lived and worked in Cornwall during the 1960s. During this period he became a friend of Sydney and Nessie Graham. Featherston returned to Canada in 1971, and the friends corresponded over the next decade. The letters and cards are wide-ranging, intensely personal, and often enriched with Graham`s drawings and doodles. The sections of typescript poetry (some of it carbon typescript and photocopies) include draft passages from `The Dark Dialogues` and...
Dates:
1958, 1970-1980, and undated.
Letters of W.S. Graham to Ruth Hilton; with poetry manuscripts and typescripts, artwork, related correspondence and published items.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13838
Dates:
circa 1956-1985.
Letters, poems, notebook and drawings of W.S. Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13727
Dates:
1956-1978.
Manuscripts, 1957-1958 and undated, of comic and bawdy verse written by William Sydney Graham during visits to the Gurnard`s Head Hotel, Zennor, Cornwall.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13064
Dates:
1957-1958.
Manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of translations of poetry and prose by George S Fraser.
File
Identifier: Acc.11406
Scope and Contents
Includes related correspondence, 1965-1986, and an undated manuscript of W S Graham.
Dates:
1965-1986 and undated.
Notebook of W S Graham containing drafts of poems, a radio play, notes and illustrations.
File
Identifier: Acc.12979
Dates:
1942-1973.
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.
Papers of W S Graham, originally from the collection of Alan Clodd.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12468
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and letters, mostly to Alan Clodd.
Dates:
circa 1937-1981.