Poetry.
Found in 2789 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of sermons and religious verse written by James Cuninghame of Barns, a Quietist preacher and Jacobite.
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.
Copy of Sydney Goodsir Smith, "Skail Wind. Poems" (1941), with autograph emandations and additions by the author.
Copy of 'The collected sporting verse of Will H Ogilvie' (London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1932); with an autograph verse, 1948, of Will H Ogilvie to A F Tschiffely on the half-title page., 1932, 1948.
Copy of “The fairy lovers’ days” compiled by Eleanour S Rohde (London, 1930), containing fair copies of poems by Marion Lochhead., 1952-1967.
Copy of ‘The golden stag’ (Oxford, 1932) by William Jeffrey, with Jeffrey's manuscript revisions., [1932, or after.]
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.
Copy of the Gulistān of Sa‘dī, probably of the early eighteenth century., 1258
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Copy of 'The hound and horn in Jedforest' (Jedburgh: T S Smail, 1909), by Thomas Scott Anderson; with an autograph verse of Will H Ogilvie on the front cover., 1909.
Copy of the poem, 'The hauntit wud' by Robert Tannahill., [Before 1811.]
Copy of ‘Under the Eildon tree’ (Edinburgh, 1948), by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with manuscript corrections and annotations by the author., [1948, or after.]
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.
Copy of verses, undated, by Donald Cargill, the covenanter., 17th century.
Copy of 'Wild coal' (1963) by Kenneth White; with a letter of White, some poems in typescript, and newspaper cuttings.
Copy of William Jeffrey's ‘Eagle of Coruisk’ (Oxford, 1933), with manuscript corrections by the poet., [1933, or after.]
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.
Copy, seventeenth century, of the satirical poem, 'La Rome ridicule' by Marc Antoine de Gerard, Sieur de Saint-Amant., [1643, or before.]
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.
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.
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.
Corrected drafts and typescripts of ten series of poems of Kenneth White.
Corrected galley and page-proofs of ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, and related printed material., [1955, or before.]
Corrected manuscript and printed version of poem of David Morrison, "Sterk Vision".
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 19 poems of Roderick Watson.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 190 poems of Duncan Glen.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and a play of David Morrison.
Corrected manuscript of a poem of George MacDonald, "Christmas 1876".
Corrected manuscript of an article, undated, and manuscript, 1948, of a verse from "Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica", both of Hamish Henderson.
Corrected manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "Returning Exile".
With typescript of the poem.