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 5 Collections and/or Records:
Galley proofs for 'A braid o thistles', by Douglas Young, with a copy the published work.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14448
Dates:
1947.
Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.
File
Identifier: Acc.12914
Scope and Contents
The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).
Dates:
1944-1976.
Papers of David D Murison.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4809
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. letter, 1942, of Douglas Young to David D Murison
2. letter, 1967, of C M Grieve to Murison
3. typescript of a poem, early 20th century, of Ronald Campbell Macfie
4. collection of letters, 19th century.
Dates:
circa 1800-1967.
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.