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:
Papers of the Irvine Robertson family, the Rev. Alexander Irvine, and the Stewart families of Garth, Kynachan and Drumcharry, with associated papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13156
Scope and Contents
Includes legal documents, correspondence, financial papers, Scottish travel journals, sermons and poetry. The correspondence is particularly of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld, and Col. David Stewart of Garth. Includes several items in Scottish Gaelic.
Dates:
17th-20th centuries.