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 6 Collections and/or Records:
Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10651
Scope and Contents
Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.
Dates:
circa 1950-1984.
Correspondence and papers of Prof Derick S Thomson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11047
Scope and Contents
Includes proofs concerning the publication of George Campbell Hay`s "Mochtar is Dughall" (Glasgow, 1982).
Dates:
1982-1983.
Fair copy manuscript of poem, 'Na Cnocain's na Bliadhnachan', by George Campbell Hay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13807
Dates:
? 1970.
Fair manuscript copies of two poems by George Campbell Hay: `The Sun Over Athens` and `Jebel and the Dayspring`. Both are signed by the poet.
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Identifier: Acc.13211
Scope and Contents
These two poems were written out and signed by George Campbell Hay, and given as a gift to a nurse who attended him during one of his periods of mental illness in the 1940s.
Dates:
? 1947.
George Campbell Hay, Verse translations of two Gaelic songs into English
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Identifier: Acc.13628
Scope and Contents
Single sheet containing two verse translations of Gaelic songs: 1. "Verses to Alasdair Mac Colla", beginning "Too long have I lain as a man sleeping", being a translation of an anonymous 17th-century Scottish Gaelic song o Alasdair Mac Colla, beg. `Is fhad tha mis ann am chadal`, printed first in John Gillies`s Gaelic song collection (Perth, 1786), pp. 85-86. 2. "An Capaillín Bán", from the Irish Gaelic, beg. "My woe and distree! `tis death has the merciless...
Dates:
1940
Papers of Francis George Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9014
Scope and Contents
Includes notes, essays, poems and correspondence.
With 13 letters of George Campbell Hay.
Dates:
1925-1957 and undated.