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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 7 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript of Ronald Stevenson song cycle, "A Child`s Garden of Verses".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10278
Scope and Contents

Makes use of Robert Louis Stevenson poems.

Dates: 1985.

Notebook of Robert Louis Stevenson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10650
Scope and Contents

Includes biographical notes on Jean Cavalier and drafts of "The Spaewife" and other poems.

Dates: circa 1881.