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 13 Collections and/or Records:
CD of amateur recording of Naomi Mitchison reading seven of her poems.
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Identifier: Acc.13413
Dates:
c. 1983.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10888/1-82
Dates:
1920s-1990s
Duplicated memorial volume of verses and prose pieces of Jim MacKniven, a schoolboy killed in the Clydebank Blitz.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10822
Scope and Contents
Includes introductory poem by Naomi Mitchison.
Dates:
1942.
Four typescripts of Naomi Mitchison, "The Cleansing of the Knife", "A Matter of Behaviour", "Conversation with an Improbable Future" and "Statement of an Imaginary Situation".
File
Identifier: Acc.10657
Dates:
1941 and undated.
Letters of and to Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10909
Scope and Contents
With typescripts, undated, of prose pieces and verse including "Prisoners at War", photographs and press-cuttings.
Dates:
1943 and undated.
Literary typescripts of Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10772
Scope and Contents
Includes a play, article and poetry.
Dates:
circa 1930-1970.
Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12578/1-45
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the life and work of the novelist, poet and writer Naomi Mitchison. Includes personal correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, press cuttings, family papers and photographs.Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, née Haldane, was born in Edinburgh in 1897. She was the youngest child of Louisa Kathleen Haldane, née Trotter, and John Scott Haldane (1860-1936). Her elder brother was the biologist J. B. S. 'Jack' Haldane (1892–1964).Naomi attended the Dragon School...
Dates:
1836-2002
Poem of Henry Treece, "Ariadne on Naxos", to Naomi Mitchison.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9028
Dates:
1963.
Single letters to Naomi Mitchison from W H Auden, Edward Garnett, and Aldous Huxley.
File
Identifier: Acc.8185
Scope and Contents
On literary, political and personal matters.
With typescript of a poem, 1930, of Mitchison.
Dates:
1930-1938.
Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10840
Scope and Contents
Includes:
"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934
letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell
verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.
Dates:
1934-1964 and undated.