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 1529 Collections and/or Records:
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1762-1768, 1804.
File
Identifier: MS.879
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Juvenile Letters, 1762-1768 (folio 1);
The remains of two volumes which originally contained Anna Seward's poems (folio 86), from which only the lists of contents (folios 86, 114) and copies of poems addressed to her by literary friends (folio 94) survive;
‘Last Lay of the Lichfield Minstrel’, 1804 (folio 117).
Dates:
1762-1768, 1804.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott.
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Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott.
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1743-[1789], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.880
Scope and Contents
The volume contains ‘Telemachus’, the first three books of an epic poem (folio 1); ‘Poems’, by the Reverend Thomas Seward (folio 92); “Observations upon Professor Spence's Essay on Pope's Odyssey” (folio 110); and four sermons (folio 144).
Dates:
1743-[1789], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott.
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Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott.
Writings of David Gray, chiefly in manuscript, but some in print, including poems, part of an attempt at drama, essays, and miscellaneous notes., [1861, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8466
Scope and Contents
Several of the poems appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
[1861, or before.]
Writings of James Hogg, with letters of Hogg's children to Robert Blackie., [1827, or after]-1873, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1869
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'The bush aboon Traquair; or, the rural philosophers. A pastoral drama', partly in James Hogg's hand, on paper watermarked 1827. Printed in ‘Tales and sketches’, volume ii. Pages are missing after folio 40. For a typed transcript see MS.6139. (Folio 1.)(ii) Various poems of Hogg, in another hand, showing some variations from the printed versions, on paper watermarked 1834, 1837. (Folio 53.)(iii) Letters of Hogg's children to...
Dates:
[1827, or after]-1873, undated.