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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:

Inscribed copy of Stewart Conn, "Thunder in the Air: Poems" (1967).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11181
Scope and Contents

Includes letter of Conn to Alexander Reid, on literary matters.

Dates: 1967.

Papers of Alexander Reid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8348
Scope and Contents

Including letters, notebooks, diaries and corrected typescripts of plays, short stories, poems, novels, and articles.

Correspondents include James Bridie, Neil Gunn, and Robert McLellan.

Dates: 1928-1981.

Papers of and concerning Alexander Reid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10652
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of plays, short stories and poems, with correspondence.

Dates: 1929-1987.