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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 1531 Collections and/or Records:

Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth., 1750, 1755.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2150-2156
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: 1750, 1755.

Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth, volume I, titled 'Collectanea seu Παρέκβολαι ad Σύλλογην fragmentorum poætarum Græcorum illustrandam.', [?1750-?1755.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.2151
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: [?1750-?1755.]

Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition ten, containing press cuttings, correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts., 1970-1971, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8845/28
Scope and Contents Containing:(i) Press cutting of an article by Maurice Sweeney in Hibernia, 3 March- 1971 [cat. no.73] and press cutting from The Irish Press, 3 Apr 1971 [cat. no.74](ii) Press cutting from The Irish Times, 8 May 1971 [cat. no.75](iii) Letter from Caitlin Maude, January 1971 [cat. no.78](iv) Letter of Máirtin Ó Diréain, 27 September 1970, and manuscript of poem 'Machnamh an Mhargaigh', by Máirtin Ó Diréain [cat. no.79](v) Manuscript...
Dates: 1970-1971, undated.

Framed items relating to 'Broadsheet' edition three, containing press cuttings, correspondence and typescripts., 1967-1968.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8845/6
Scope and Contents Containing:(i) Press cutting of an article by 'Quidnunc' in The Irish Times' 22 November 1967 [cat no.17].(ii) Three letters of Raoul Hausmann, 24 September 1967, 28 February 1968 and 18 March 1968 [cat no.20].(iii) Signed typescript of poem 'For Hayden Murphy', by Patrick Kavanagh, also containing a letter signed by his doctor, Richard Riordan, and his friend Edward McGuire. Possibly the poet's last work [cat.no.21](iv) Typescript of poem...
Dates: 1967-1968.

Further offprints and cuttings of journal articles and newspaper contributions by MacDonald. , 1910-1924.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13587/4
Scope and Contents

464 folios and newspaper cuttings. A note by MacDonald at the beginning states that it was begun in October 1910 and completed in 1924. The volume brings together offprints of journal articles and press cuttings of letters and contributions of MacDonald to newspapers. The Gaelic songs or poetry he quotes in the newspaper articles in this volume is usually traditional or composed by other named poets; for his own original poetry see Acc.13587/3.

Dates: 1910-1924.

Gaelic material, chiefly plays and broadcasts, of Hector MacIver., 1934-1962, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14973
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.Autograph verse by Sorley MacLean (folios 1-2):(i) “Bho mhullaichean a’ chuilthinn chràcaich”, 29 lines. From part III of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 1 recto);(ii) ‘Aigich Sgitheanaich’, 8 stanzas. From the ‘Aigeach’ lyrics in part V of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 2 recto);(iii) ‘Mo lamhan air lapadh’, 10 stanzas. ‘Crath dhiot an cadal’. With lines addressed to Hector MacIver beginning ‘Eachainn dhuinn an leadain dualaich’, 4...
Dates: 1934-1962, undated.

Gaelic songs and verse., 1752-1823 and undated

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14851-14857
Scope and Contents

Gaelic songs assembled by Rev. Donald MacNicol and his son Dugald, containing Ossianic poetry, versions of the spiritual songs of Dugald Buchanan, and songs of Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and other poets contemporary with the collectors, not all of them identified. Most of the material is in the form of single sheets or sheets folded into small booklets. With a few items of correspondence.

Dates: 1752-1823 and undated

Gaelic songs from the song collection of Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine., ca. 1800

 File
Identifier: Acc.14544/3
Scope and Contents A number of loose sheets containing Gaelic songs, formerly in NLS MS.14878 (formerly Acc.3184/B), described in John Mackechnie, 'Catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts, vol. 1, pages 338-340. Comprising:Part of "Oran Cattach", part of stanza 6 to stanza 13. The complete song was sent to Irvine, together with a cover letter in Gaelic, by Alasdair MacNab. The letter and the beginning of the song ('Tha cùram do ghaoil do ghaòir 's do ghàir orm / A ribhinn alluin ebhin òg') is found in...
Dates: ca. 1800

Galley proofs of 'Collected poems' by Robert Garioch, with manuscript corrections by Sutherland., August 1976.

 File
Identifier: MS.26592
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: August 1976.

Galley proofs of ‘Gleanings by an undergraduate’ and ‘But the Earth abideth’, and page proofs of ‘The solitary way’, ‘Riddles in Scots’ and other individual poems., [1923, or before-1943, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8625
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: [1923, or before-1943, or before.]

'Genealogie of the wholl Nobility of Scotland ... since ye reign of K. Orbred ye It.... By H. R. by comand of HMK’., 1685.

 File
Identifier: MS.2108
Scope and Contents 'Hugh McKy' appears as owner of the book on folios 1, 187 verso, 190 verso; 'Hu: Rose' on folio 1.The account of the nobility is followed by lists of officials in the same hand (folio 175). In another hand is a poem (folio 185), 'Lowe and honour, or the lowers fairweell to Calista being sent from see in the latte engagement agst the Duth to his mistris under the name of Armeda wt ye Ladys deploring and ingenuous ansr to a new sad air much in request or the tune of the Tirrant hes...
Dates: 1685.

General correspondence of Christopher Murray Grieve., 1929-1981, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27152-27155
Scope and Contents

The writers include friends of Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, publishers, and literary agents. While some of the letters discuss his work or reflect his political affiliations, many are requests to use his poems, or invitations to give speeches. In some cases, MacDiarmid used the backs of the letters for notes and drafts of poems.

Dates: 1929-1981, undated.

General correspondence of Sydney Durward Tremayne, chiefly about poetry., 1947-1986, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26702
Scope and Contents

The writers, who sometimes enclosed poems in their letters, include Norman MacCaig, Frederick Pratt Green and Sylvia Seeker.

Dates: 1947-1986, undated.

Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser., [1855, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.6
Scope and Contents The volume was made in Glasgow as an account book. A number of leaves are excised at the beginning. Folio 90 is additional. The contents are as follows.(i) Additional notes. (Folio 1 recto.)(ii) Glossary Mi-Fhonnmhor – Ur-Theagasg. (Folio 4 recto.)(iii) Specimens of Gaelic verse scanned according to music. (Folio 75 recto.)(iv) Duncan MacDougall. “Nis o’n thainig na h-eoin as na seomraichean balbh”, 12 quatrains. With note. (Folio...
Dates: [1855, or after.]