Criticism.
Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:
`Observations on a work called Remarks on Colonel Stewart`s Sketches of the Highlanders`, a copy of Major-General David Stewart of Garth`s reply to the anonymous author of the ‘Remarks’, who had criticised Stewart`s ‘Sketches of the Highlanders’.
A printed copy of the ‘Remarks’ is bound with the manuscript.
Papers concerning East African literature., 1968-1981.
Concerning his doctoral thesis, books and broadcasts, his involvement in East African literature, his editorship of 'Journal of Commonwealth literature' and convenorship of the Scottish Poetry Library.
Includes lectures notes, drafts, histories, correspondence and interviews.
Papers concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 1801-1826, undated.
Papers of Alexander Scott.
Includes correspondence, noteboooks, and manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, fiction, plays, autiobiographical and critical works.
Papers of Duncan Glen.
Papers concern Glen`s poetry, critical works on Hugh MacDiarmid, genealogy of the Glen family and Akros publications, including editorial correspondence.
Papers of G S Fraser.
Comprising manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems and critical work, with 86 letters from correspondents, including Ronald Bottrall, Lawrence Durrell, William Empson, and Kathleen Raine.
Papers of John Dover Wilson concerning education and English literature., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers of Kenneth White.
Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of literary and critical works and related correspondence.
Papers of Sir Charles Elliot concerning Demerara and slavery., ?1830-?1833.
Papers of Sir Charles Elliot concerning Demerara and slavery., ?1830-?1833.
Papers of William Mathie Parker concerning his work, "The Pageant of Eden Phillpotts, a Study of the Dartmoor Novels".
Papers, undated, of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound concerning classics and literature., Early 18th century.
Peter Butter review of ‘Words of Eternity : Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime’ by Vincent Arthur De Luca from ‘Modern Language Review’ ; Modern Humanities Research Association book review guidelines., 1993.
File named ‘Recent Review’ by Peter Butter.
Research of Duncan Glen, including press cuttings, newspapers and periodicals, relating to Hugh MacDiarmid., 1958-1967, undated.
Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and essays, and includes critical work on Hugh MacDiamrid.
Reviews of the works of Ian Rankin., 1983-2014.
This series contains published reviews of the creative works of Ian Rankin. Included are both press cuttings and complete periodicals containing the reviews. Many of the press cuttings are photocopies sent to Rankin via an agency.
Richard Wharton, "Observations on the Authenticity of Bruce`s Travels" (1800), with extensive annotations by William George Browne.
With a letter, 1789, of James Bruce to George Robinson.
Student notes of the ‘Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres’ of Hugh Blair.
The lectures contain (folios 51 verso, 59 verso, 76 verso) the criticisms of Dr Johnson omitted from the published ‘Lectures’, and in particular the rendering of a passage of Addison in the style of Johnson (folio 83) quoted in part by Boswell in his ‘Life’ (edited by Birkbeck Hill, 1934, etc., volume iii, page 172).
Typescript and revised typescript of, and readers` reports on, "The Kingship of the Scots: 842-1292" (2002), by A A M Duncan.
Various editorial papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1953, [1962, or before], undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Brief pieces written to fill up spaces in magazines, and other short prose writings, 1953, ?1962, undated (folio 1); (ii) Criticisms by Hugh MacDiarmid of work by another writer, undated (folio 77); (iii) Glossaries of Scots words, undated (folio 82); (iv) Introductory note and list of proposed contents for MacDiarmid's ‘Collected poems’ (Edinburgh, 1962) (folio 99). These are followed (folio 112) by suggestions for the contents by M L Rosenthal.