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 5 Collections and/or Records:
Letters of, to or concerning Lady Caroline Lamb; with letters and manuscripts of George Lamb and William Lamb., 1812-1831, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43468
Scope and Contents
The letters of Caroline Lamb to various correspondents have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. Papers relating to George Lamb and William Lamb, Lord Melbourne, have been arranged at the end of the sequence.Letter of Caroline Lamb to William Fletcher, 1812: folios 1-2;Copy of a letter of Caroline Lamb to Thomas Medwin, 1824: folios 3-6;Letter of Caroline Lamb to Lydia Rogers White, 1824: folios 7-8;Copy of a letter of...
Dates:
1812-1831, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Letters of and to Lady Caroline Lamb, with some of William Lamb and George Lamb.
Letters to Catherine Gordon Byron; and letters of Anne Isabella Noel Byron, Lady Byron., 1808-1857.
File
Identifier: MS.43411
Scope and Contents
Letters to Catherine Gordon Byron have been placed before those of Anne Isablla Noel Byron, Lady Byron.Letters to or concerning Catherine Gordon Byron:Letter of Margaret Abercromby to Lady Catherine Gordon Byron, [1811]: folios 1-2;Letter of John Birch to Lady Catherine Gordon Byron, 1808: folios 3-4;Letter of William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, to Catherine Gordon Byron, 1810: folios 5-6;Letter of John Dell to Catherine Gordon...
Dates:
1808-1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Letters of and to Catherine Gordon Byron, and of Anne Isabella Noel Byron, Lady Byron.
Manuscripts of works and translations by Lord Byron; with some copy in the hands of Lady Byron, Charles Hanson, John Cam Hobhouse, Augusta Leigh, John Murray [II], and Mary Shelley., 1807-1823, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43348
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts here have been broadly arranged in chronological order. First lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. ‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions.Corrected manuscript draft of an untitled poem (“As relics left of saints above …”) in the hand of Byron, undated [?1806]: folio 1;Corrected manuscript of ‘Parody on Sir W. Jones’s Translation from Hafiz – “Sweet...
Dates:
1807-1823, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.
Volume containing manuscripts of miscellaneous early poems of Lord Byron., 1807-1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.43340
Scope and Contents
This volume contains various poetical pieces, largely in the hand of Lord Byron. A number of leaves have been cut from the beginning of the volume. There are contents on 27 folios of the volume, with additional annotations to the inside back board. The inside front board contains a bookplate of John Murray, giving an address in Wimbledon.The content has been listed in the order in which it appears in the volume. For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the...
Dates:
1807-1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.
Volume of miscellaneous poetic manuscripts by Lord Byron; with some related correspondence., 1808-1822, 1930-1973, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43346
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts here have been largely arranged in chronological order. The original foliation of the volume has been retained, although some of the folios have been removed prior to arrival at the Library.For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions...
Dates:
1808-1822, 1930-1973, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Archive of John Murray, publishers.
/
Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
/
Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
/
Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.