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 4 Collections and/or Records:
13 letters of Alastair Reid to John Main, with collection of typescript poems of Alastair Reid.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13393
Scope and Contents
With one letter, 1994, of Alastair Reid to John Main, enclosing a copy of an article of Reid's from 'The New Yorker'.
Dates:
1948-1951.
Letter and corrected carbon typescripts of six poems by Alastair Reid; with an inscribed copy of "Oddments, inklings, omens, moments: poems" (Boston, 1959).
File
Identifier: Acc.13015
Dates:
1956-1959.
Literary papers of Alastair Reid.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12450
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, poetry worksheets, correspondence with poets, translators and editors, manuscripts and typescripts of prose works, including a book written with Robert Graves, photographs and audio and video tapes.
Dates:
1951-2003.
Manuscript worksheets of 14 poems of Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Alastair Reid.
File
Identifier: Acc.11519
Scope and Contents
The fourteen poems are:
Del Infierno y Del Cielo
El Reloj de Arena
El Instante
El Sueno
1964
Al Hijo
Poema del Cuarto Elemento
El Alquimista
Poema Conjetural
Baltasar Gracián
Lectores
Dreamtigers
Everness
El Forastero
Dates:
1996-1997.