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 27 Collections and/or Records:
The only known autograph manuscript of the poem "Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria" by Robert Burns (Kinsley number 486).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10982
Dates:
circa 1794-1795.
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