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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 2789 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of sermons and religious verse written by James Cuninghame of Barns, a Quietist preacher and Jacobite.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5166
Scope and Contents

The poems and sermons have for headings the date and place of composition; among the places mentioned are Edinburgh, Stirling, Kilsyth, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

The manuscript is written in a fair hand, and some gaps have been left where the copyist could not read the original.

The original pagination, lacking pages 100-179, is faulty.

Dates: 1710-1711.

Copy of ‘The golden stag’ (Oxford, 1932) by William Jeffrey, with Jeffrey's manuscript revisions., [1932, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26899
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Educated in Wishaw and at Glasgow University, William Jeffrey spent the rest of his career as a journalist in Glasgow. His literary work consisted of poetry, essays and criticism.

Dates: [1932, or after.]

Copy of ‘Under the Eildon tree’ (Edinburgh, 1948), by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with manuscript corrections and annotations by the author., [1948, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26124
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Most of Sydney Goodsir Smith's poems in Scots were published in literary periodicals and in several small volumes of his poetry. His 'Collected poems, 1941-1975' (London, 1975), contains a selection of his work and not the whole corpus.

Dates: [1948, or after.]

Copy of William Jeffrey's ‘Eagle of Coruisk’ (Oxford, 1933), with manuscript corrections by the poet., [1933, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26898
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Educated in Wishaw and at Glasgow University, William Jeffrey spent the rest of his career as a journalist in Glasgow. His literary work consisted of poetry, essays and criticism.

Dates: [1933, or after.]

Copy, seventeenth century, of the satirical poem, 'La Rome ridicule' by Marc Antoine de Gerard, Sieur de Saint-Amant., [1643, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.5752
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: [1643, or before.]

Copy, undated, of a poem by James Beattie, 'To Mr. Alexander Ross at Lochlee', from the 'Aberdeen Journal', June 1786, inserted in ‘Lives of the Scotish poets’ (Edinburgh, 1804) by David lrving., 1786.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6568 [L.C.1516]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.

Dates: 1786.

Corrected galley and page-proofs of ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, and related printed material., [1955, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.27023
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Hugh MacDiarmid originally planned four volumes of this immensely long poem, but only one, ‘In memoriam James Joyce’, (Glasgow, 1955), was published. Parts of the rest appeared in periodicals or in later collections of Hugh MacDiarmid's poems. These papers contain numerous drafts and re-workings of sections of the poem, made over a period of many years. MacDiarmid frequently rearranged sequences or withdrew them for use elsewhere, so while some of the drafts and copies are substantial,...
Dates: [1955, or before.]

Corrected manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "Returning Exile".

 File
Identifier: Acc.4460
Scope and Contents

With typescript of the poem.

Dates: circa 1968.