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 2780 Collections and/or Records:
Autobiographical notes of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Frederick Oliver, with miscellaneous verse., 1907-1944.
File
Identifier: MS.24669
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Peter Oliver served with Coke's Rifles during the Second World War until his death on active service in Burma in 1945. Included here are papers relating to his army career. However, he is better known as a mountaineer, and particularly as a member of two unsuccessful Everest expeditions in 1936 and 1938. Climbing regularly in the Himalayas and to a lesser extent in the Alps during the 1930s, Oliver's papers are noteworthy for his detailed climbing journals, his articles on mountaineering,...
Dates:
1907-1944.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, literary papers, and photographs, of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver, 1921-1944, together with diaries and miscellaneous papers of his mother, Elizabeth Oliver, wife of Major Edward Oliver, Veterinary Advisor to the Indian government, 1905-1946, undated.
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Papers of and concerning Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver.
Autobiography and diaries of foreign travel, circa 1953-1979, of Helen Henderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8867
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of poetry, circa 1890, of William Constable (originals now destroyed).
Dates:
circa 1890, circa 1953-1979.
‘Autobiography of a nineteenth century printer’ by Samuel Kinnear, 1878, 1886-1887, with a diary, 1887, and poems, 1888., 1878-1888.
Item
Identifier: MS.1938
Scope and Contents
After an apprenticeship in Glasgow, the author was a printer in Edinburgh from about 1837. His narrative includes accounts of current events, of Edinburgh printers, and of literary and ecclesiastical celebrities, of whom there are many portraits. The illuminated title and dedication were written by James Watson, Writing Master.
Dates:
1878-1888.
Autograph album, lettered on the spine 'Ch. Hutcheson. Sketches', probably Charles Hutcheson, a well-known Glasgow citizen, a member of the Society of Dilettanti, who died in 1860., [1824, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2731
Scope and Contents
The album contains copies of verses, children's drawings, sketches of marine subjects by Charles Hutcheson himself, and other material. The watermark date is 1824.
Dates:
[1824, or after.]
Autograph album of an unknown collector, containing verses, drawings, and photographs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14322
Scope and Contents
The album contains poetry, prose extracts, drawings, painting, and photographs by various artists. Many of the entries relate to Edinburgh, including to Moray House.
Dates:
1918-1931.
Autograph album of Mary Borthwick, inscribed 1894, containing several entries of verse and drawings, 1895-1900., 1894-1900.
Item
Identifier: MS.10464
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1894-1900.
Autograph album with the name Jessie Begbie stamped on the cover; containing verses (originals and copies), prose extracts and drawings.
Item
Identifier: MS.15918
Dates:
1870-1908.
Autograph manuscript of 'Crathie Church', an apparently unpublished poem by Sir Edwin Arnold., 1894.
Item
Identifier: MS.9588
Autograph manuscript of 'Najine', an apparently unpublished poem by Sir Edwin Arnold., 1896.
Item
Identifier: MS.9589
Autograph manuscript, undated, of 'Ship-logs', an apparently unpublished poem by Sir Edwin Arnold., [Circa 1895.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9590
Autograph manuscripts "Autumn" and "The Celtic Genius", poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
File
Identifier: Acc.10881
Dates:
circa 1960.
Autograph manuscripts of poems of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3501/15-17
Autograph manuscripts of ten poems by Edwin Morgan on "Scotland`s favourite paintings" as selected by readers of `The Herald`.
File
Identifier: Acc.12948
Scope and Contents
With related papers and notes by Lesley Duncan, and a copy of the resulting book "Beyond the Sun" (Edinburgh, 2007).
Dates:
2005-2007.
Autograph manuscripts of three apparently unpublished poems by Sir Edwin Arnold.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9588-9590
Dates:
1894-1896.
Autograph notebook of poems, largely unpublished, by Sorley MacLean (1911-1996).
Item
Identifier: MS.14966
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) “Shaoil mi i bhith fo éislean”, 2 stanzas (folio 1);(ii) “Dh’aontaich mo reusan ‘s mo chridh”, 10 lines (middle of folio 1);(iii) “‘S tusa Shomhairle ‘chuis-bhurte”, 4 lines (folio 2);(iv) ‘Mo chasan brist aig Alamein’, 4 lines (folio 3);(v) “Oidhche de ‘n dà bhliadhna”, 17 lines. ‘An Trom-laighe’. (‘Spring tide and Neap Tide’, page 129) (folio 5);(vi) “‘S mi ris an neo-dhealgach”, 6...
Dates:
1943.
Autograph poem “An Eala Bhàn” by Iain Crichton Smith, with typed transcript and English translation.
File
Identifier: MS.14971
Dates:
1968.
Autograph poem of James Hogg.
File
Identifier: Acc.10001
Scope and Contents
With a note of Mrs Thomas Hughes concerning the poem`s provenance.
Dates:
circa 1828.
Autograph settings by Francis George Scott of a poem of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.
File
Identifier: Acc.8941
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.10095
Scope and Contents
Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.
Dates:
1962.
Autograph version, apparently unpublished, of 'Peebles to the Play' by James Ballantine.
Item
Identifier: MS.8489
Scope and Contents
The manuscript does not appear to have been published. However, a version of the poem was prepared for the inauguration of the Chambers' Institution, Peebles, 1859.
Dates:
[1859, or before].
Autograph working manuscript of William Douglas Home "Now Barabbas..., Act I".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10813
Scope and Contents
Contains verses by the author.
Dates:
circa 1947.
'Ballad of Bond Street or the Careful Choice', an apparently unpublished poem, probably by Alexander Maclehose, addressed to his parents Dr and Mrs James Maclehose.
Item
Identifier: MS.9591
Dates:
1929.
Bannatyne Manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6
Scope and Contents
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
Bannatyne Manuscript: the draft manuscript., 1568.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6 (1 of 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
Bannatyne Manuscript: the main manuscript., 1568.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.