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 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter, 1824, of James Hogg to a Mrs Laing, including the texts of two poems, `Reflections on the Nature of Woman` and `A Metaphor`; together with two undated poems of Robert Hogg, his nephew, `Linlithgow Palace` and `I think of thee`.
File
Identifier: Dep.380
Dates:
1824, and undated.
Letters and poems of Robert Hogg to John and Margaret Aitken.
File
Identifier: Acc.13164
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three autograph letters addressed by Robert Hogg (1802-1832), nephew of James Hogg the poet, to John and Margaret Aitken, mostly on his uncle`s affairs. It also contains two poems possibly addressed to Mrs Aitken.
Dates:
1822 and undated.