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 8 Collections and/or Records:
64 letters, 1899-1949 and undated, to John Purves, mostly on literary matters, from among others J M Barrie, John Davidson, Luigi Pirandello and Walter de la Mare.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7175
Scope and Contents
With literary and historical manuscripts, 1388, 1798-1911 and undated, collected by Purves, including single letters of D G Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.
Also two albums, 1936-1952, of Purves, containing inscriptions in poetry and prose by various contributors.
Dates:
1388, 1798-1952.
Correspondence and papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family., 1681-1853.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12092/87-101
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of more than 3000 documents, dating from the 1420s to 1980s, mainly relating to the family of Skene of Rubislaw (near Aberdeen). At its centre are the papers of James Skene (1775-1864), artist and friend of Sir Walter Scott. Skene corresponded with notable individuals in the cultural circles of his day and was connected with such organizations as the Royal Institution, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute for the...
Dates:
1681-1853.
Correspondence, poetry and prose of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House., 1796-1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.50703
Scope and Contents
LettersArchibald, Joseph JamiesonLetter, 8 November 1825, of Scott to Joseph Jamieson Archibald on his admiration for Robert Burns and the progress of John Gibson Lockhart in London. Folio 1.Ballantyne, JamesLetter, 8 July 1826, of Scott to James Ballantyne on his work for ‘The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte’. Folios 2-3.Bell, JohnLetter, 7 March 1816, of Scott to John Bell on collecting Jacobite songs. Folios 4-5....
Dates:
1796-1832.
Fragment of the border ballad 'Outlaw Murray'.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14137
Scope and Contents
In Sir Walter Scott's hand and collected for Scott's 'The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' with variations from teh published version.
Dates:
Circa 1802.
'Lay of the Last Minstrel' (London: John Sharpe, 1809) by Sir Walter Scott; with notes of William Beckford., 1809.
Item
Identifier: MS.50705
Scope and Contents
Beckfords's notes for the volume appear on i only. The rest of the copy is clean.
Dates:
1809.
Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House.
Record Group
Identifier: MSS.50701-50706
Dates:
1781-1832.
Selected manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House., 1796-1832.
Series
Identifier: MSS.50702-50705
Volume containing manuscript poems of Lord Byron and some letters of various correspondents; with a manuscript catalogue relating to manuscripts and correspondence of Lord Byron., ?1811-1831, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43341
Scope and Contents
There are here two volumes. The first contains a number of manuscripts of the poetry of Byron, with some correspondence of and to Byron.The content has been listed in the order in which it appears in the volume. For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated; pencil notes are in an unidentified hand.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by...
Dates:
?1811-1831, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Archive of John Murray, publishers.
/
Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
/
Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
/
Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.