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 7 Collections and/or Records:
Audio recordings of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.
Series
Identifier: MSS.50252-50253
Dates:
[1955-1956].
Copies of Edwin Muir, "First Poems" (1925) and "Chorus of the Newly Dead" (1926), the former inscribed by Muir to John and Dorothy Holms.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9645
Scope and Contents
Both annotated by Beatrix Holms
Dates:
circa 1925-1926.
Open reel audio recording of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University., [1955-1956].
Item
Identifier: MS.50252
Open reel audio recording of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University., [1955-1956].
Item
Identifier: MS.50253
Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents
Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.
Dates:
1946-1975.
Printed copy of "The Estate of Poetry" by Edwin Muir.
File
Identifier: Acc.12172
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Willa Muir of (1) T S Elliot, 1962 (2) Helen Sutherland, 1963; with two other Edwin Muir volumes.
Dates:
1962-1963.`