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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 8 Collections and/or Records:

Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12937
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.

Dates: 1938-1964.

Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith; with letters to Hazel Goodsir Smith.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12006
Scope and Contents Manuscripts and Typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith:Corrected carbon copy of typescript, circa 1948, of 'Under the Eildon Tree'.Manuscripts, circa 1952-1953, of four poems dedicated to Hazel Goodsir Smith.‘Tis Late’ was published in 'Lines Review', 6 (1954), page 23; ‘Mareeld’ was published in 'Omens' (Edinburgh: M.Macdonald, 1955), page 16.Letter, undated, to Hazel Goodsir Smith.Manuscript drafts, undated, of ‘Said Heraclitus’....
Dates: Circa 1948-1976, undated.

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.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10426
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays and articles.

Dates: 1939-1961 and undated.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10281
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1974.