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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 1258 Collections and/or Records:

Typescripts of poems and short stories of Bill Thomson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12010
Scope and Contents

Includes press cuttings.

Dates: circa 2000.

Typescripts of poems submitted to 'Lines Review'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11895
Scope and Contents

A small collection of typescripts of poems submitted to 'Lines Review'. These include typescripts, and some related letters, of Tom Buchan, Fred Cogswell, Rayne MacKinnon, Hermann Pálsson, John Taylor, Stephen Watts, Eric Wishart, and William Wolfe.

Dates: 1982-1994, undated.

Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12081/1-49
Scope and Contents

A collection of typescript drafts, circa 1983-2002, of a number of plays and a collection of poems by Ian Brown.

Dates: circa 1983-2002.

Typescripts of two poems of George S Fraser.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4715
Scope and Contents

Corrected for printing in a Reading University magazine.

Dates: circa 1969.

Typsecript verse concerning Sir Patrick Geddes by Dr Arthur Geddes with related notes; printed `Brief Guide to the Scotland Room, The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh`, undated; annotated typescript of `Patrick Geddes as a sociologist` by Dr Arthur Geddes; offprints of four published articles on Patrick Geddes.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13661
Scope and Contents i). Two typescript drafts, 1946, undated, of `Olympus and a Mortal Spirit : sonnet to a servant of the Gods, in memory and pressage ; (1854-1932), Patrick Geddes` , by Arthur Geddes, with incomplete comments on the sonnet and Patrick Geddes by Arthur Geddes.ii). Printed `Brief Guide to the Scotland Room, The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh`, undated, with annotations by Arthur Geddes.iii). Typescript, undated, of `Patrick Geddes as Sociologist`, a lecture given...
Dates: 1946-2015, undated

Unpublished poem and correspondence of George Outram.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13489
Scope and Contents

A small collection of letters mainly to George Outram, and a manuscript of one of his `legal lyrics`, evidently unpublished. The letters are from various eminent correspondents and mainly relate to `The Glasgow Herald` and to Outram`s first privately printed collection of `Legal Lyrics` (1851). Correspondents include William Edmonstoune Aytoun, John Wilson and James Sheridan Knowles. With one unrelated letter, 1870, of Sir George Deas.

Dates: c 1840-1855.

Valmiki, "Ramayana".

 File
Identifier: Acc.2426
Scope and Contents

Imperfect copy.

Dates: 18th century.

Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents

The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.

Dates: 4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.

Various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.17888-17894
Dates: Mid 18th century-early 19th century.

Various works of Ovid in a manuscript by Nicolas Crabel, written at Padua in 1448-1449, with additions of the later 15th and 16th centuries

 ...
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Ovid. `Ars amatoria` (`de arte amandi` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores’, etc., page 113). The first gathering has been wrongly bound; the correct order of folios is 3, 2, 6-10, 5, 4, 1 (folio 1).(ii) Ovid. `Amores’ (`de sine titulo` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis Amores’, etc., page 5). ii.14. 31-16.8 are omitted (folio 29).(iii) Ovid. `Remedia amoris` (`de remedio amoris` manuscript; ‘P. Ovidi Nasonis...
Dates: 1448-16th century.

Verse letter, ? 1787, of Robert Burns to John Renton of Lamerton.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8574
Scope and Contents

With a letter, ? 1851, of Robert Chambers to J C Renton concerning the manuscript.

Dates: ? 1787, ? 1851

Verse of Elizbeth Keir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8363