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 2789 Collections and/or Records:
Translations and other writings of Charles Scott Moncrieff., 1924-1925.
Item
Identifier: MS.20451
Dates:
1924-1925.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and translations of Charles K Scott Moncrieff.
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Notebooks containing draft translations by Charles Scott Moncrieff of ‘The letters of Abelard and Heloise’ and of works by Stendhal and Luigi Pirandello; and reviews and letters.
'Translations and paraphrases in verse of several passages of Scripture written by James Cargill teacher Edinburgh, 1859'.
File
Identifier: MS.824
Dates:
1859.
Translations, epigrams, etc., of R L Edgeworth, copied by his daughter Harriet, circa 1817, for her Aunt Ruxton, R L Edgeworth's sister., Circa 1817.
File
Identifier: MS.2723
Scope and Contents
All, except the poems on folios 12 and 13 verso, are also contained in MS.2721.
Dates:
Circa 1817.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).
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Commonplace-books, etc., of Richard Lovell Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown and his family, with some notes in pencil ascribing names, dates, etc., to poems.
Translations into Italian by Mario Cavo of a selection of poems by Gael Turnbull.
File
Identifier: Acc.12797
Dates:
2006-2007.
Treatises on alchemy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) 'Conpositum de Conpositis abstractis a philosophis'. See 'Catalogue of Latin and vernacular alchemical manuscripts', number 290, which ascribes the work to 'magistri Parisii'. For a summary of the contents and discussion of possible authorship, see ‘History of magic and experimental science’ (London, 1923-1958), volume iii, page 133-135. A colophon gives the place and date of compilation of the treatise as Paris, May, 1331, and...
Dates:
14th century.
Treatises on medicine, astronomy and astrology written by Francisco Argilagues of Valencia, mostly while he was studying medicine at Siena in 1472-1473, with an addition made at Padua in 1480.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.2
Scope and Contents
From the subscriptions and the physical make-up of the volume it appears that there were originally four booklets, bound together a century later.The contents of the volume are as follows:- Written in 1472 with additions in 1480:`Sermo de conservatione sanitatis` by Filippe Bandini of Arezzo (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1294). The beginning is lost but author (Philip de Roderia) and title (`Regimen...
Dates:
1472-1480.
Tunes for fiddle and bagpipe, with some Gaelic poetry, compiled by Barbara Forsyth.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9496
Dates:
circa 1863-1875.
Twenty-five letters, 1926-1977, of C M Grieve to James K Annand, mostly on literary matters; manuscripts of seven poems, undated, of C M Grieve; and a manuscript of an appreciation, 1967, by C M Grieve of George Ogilvie.
File
Identifier: Dep.283- is now part of Acc.9624.
Dates:
1926-1977.
Twenty-four poetry notebooks of Richard Price.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13512
Scope and Contents
Working poetry notebooks of Richard Price. The notebooks contain drafts of poems, many very different from the published version, also unpublished work, translations and reflections on major events in Price`s life. The notebooks show Price’s working practice, including his idiosyncratic use of pluses and minuses for metric stresses; his engagement with ideas in Scottish art, fiction and poetry; his use of Renfrewshire in his work; and his habit of working on several very different poems at...
Dates:
c. 1992-2004.
Twenty-three letters of Thomas Campbell to various correspondents (including Sir Robert Ker Porter, Jane Porter, the Reverend Archibald Alison and his wife), with three fragments of verse in his hand., 1802-1836, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9818, folios 105-154
Dates:
1802-1836, undated.
Two albums containing poems, quotations artwork and autographs; both include drawings by Andrew Allan.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13608
Dates:
1889-1891, 1914-1920.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Two commonplace books of George Glen Napier.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9098
Scope and Contents
Containing quotations from Tennyson`s "In Memorium", press cuttings and commentaries.
Dates:
circa 1905-circa 1928.
Two contemporary poems concerning the Porteous Riots, inserted in "The Gentleman's Magazine”, September 1736., [Circa 1736.]
File
Identifier: MS.6575 [L.C.1790]
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.
Dates:
[Circa 1736.]
Two copies, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.4.10-35.4.11
Dates:
Circa 1565.
Two copies of a typescript of "Olaf's son", books XI-XVI, 'final revision', by George Donald Valentine, with manuscript corrections., [1936, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5195-5196
Two copies of part II of ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ by Samuel Colvil.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.3.9-19.3.10
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Two copies of 'The Cheltenham ladies college magazine', containing a poem and an article by Janet Adam Smith., 1922-1923.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/44-45
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
1922-1923.
Two Latin poems, 1617, by John Malcolm, minister of Perth, inserted between pages 140-141 of ‘The muses welcome to the high and mighty prince James... King of Great Britaine’ (Edinburgh, 1618).
File
Identifier: MS.14239
Scope and Contents
The poems were presented to King James in honour of his visit to Scotland, but were not published. The second poem was sent to St Andrews to be printed but does not appear in ‘Antiquissimae celeberrimaeque academiae Andreanae Χαριστερια’ (Edinburgh, 1617).
Dates:
1617.
Two letters, 1817-1824, to John Aitken.
File
Identifier: Acc.8879
Scope and Contents
With a poem, 1832, of James Hogg, "The Sky Lark".
Dates:
1817-1832.
Two letters, 1893, of William Anderson to his colleague Hugh Goldie; fragments of his journal, 1889; copy of letters, 1841, of Mrs Margaret Cowan, Jamaica, to his aunt; and copies of poems., 1841-1893.
File
Identifier: MS.8943
Two letters and four poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Heather Scott, with various publications given by Finlay to Scott.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13441
Scope and Contents
A small collection of papers, publications and artefacts of and relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay. The donor of the collection, Heather Scott (née Fretwell), was a friend of Finlay’s in the 1960s, and much of the material dates from this period.
Dates:
ca.1961-1962; with some later items, 1998, 1999.
Two letters and typescripts of four poems of George Bruce.
File
Identifier: Acc.12634
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript recollection of George Bruce by the Rev Alasdair W Macdonell.
Dates:
1975-1976, 1999.
Two letters of Hugh MacDiarmid to T J Williams and Joyce Williams.
File
Identifier: Acc.14427
Scope and Contents
On the Breton nationalist Andre Geffroy and MacDiarmid's efforts to establish a Scottish Committee.
A signed copy of "A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle" (Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, 1956) for Joyce Williams is also included.
Dates:
1952-1956.