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 3 Collections and/or Records:
Further offprints and cuttings of journal articles and newspaper contributions by MacDonald. , 1910-1924.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13587/4
Scope and Contents
464 folios and newspaper cuttings. A note by MacDonald at the beginning states that it was begun in October 1910 and completed in 1924. The volume brings together offprints of journal articles and press cuttings of letters and contributions of MacDonald to newspapers. The Gaelic songs or poetry he quotes in the newspaper articles in this volume is usually traditional or composed by other named poets; for his own original poetry see Acc.13587/3.
Dates:
1910-1924.
Newspaper cuttings of original Gaelic poetry of MacDonald, as well as articles on Gaelic subjects., 1902-1925
Item
Identifier: Acc.13587/3
Scope and Contents
249 folios and press cuttings. The volume is entitled by MacDonald: "Newspapers cuttings &c. (mainly original compositions) and for publication - Gaelic particularly. Commenced June 1902. Completed March 1925." The volume also includes publications translated into Gaelic by MacDonald, such as 'Fiosrachadh 'o'n luchd-riaghlaidh mo dheighinn Chanada' (1892). The Gaelic poetry was mostly composed by MacDonald, usually to older tunes which he wished to revive by giving them more...
Dates:
1902-1925
Scrapbooks of correspondence and papers of Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach").
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13587
Scope and Contents
Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach", 1860-1928) is the author of `Story and Song from Loch Ness-side` (Inverness 1914) and of a Gaelic poetry collection of his own, `Còinneach `us Coille` (Inverness 1895). After the appearance of his poetry collection he continued to contribute songs composed or edited by himself to newspapers, but these were not subsequently collected into a second volume. He also wrote a large number of articles on Gaelic- and Highland-related matters in journals...
Dates:
1878-ca. 1925