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 9 Collections and/or Records:
11 letters of George Mackay Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.5760
Scope and Contents
With typescripts of his "Lifeboat and Other Poems".
Dates:
1970-1971.
34 letters to David Morrison of correspondents including George Mackay Brown, Neil Gunn, and Fionn MacColla, all concerning the 'Scotia Review'; with associated typescripts and page proofs of poems and articles.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6839 Box 1(1)-Box 5
Dates:
1970-1974, undated.
162 letters of George Mackay Brown to Jenny Robertson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12679
Scope and Contents
Includes two letters, 1981, to Robertson`s daughter Aileen, three incomplete letters and a copy of a poem "To George" by the donor.
Dates:
1977-1996.
Corrected typescripts of poems of George Mackay Brown, "Ceremony for the Green King" and "The Viking`s Testament".
File
Identifier: Acc.5201
Dates:
circa 1963.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13344
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1986-1994, of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Grawford; with manuscript and typescript poems and acrostics, 1986-1995; uncorrected typescript, 1986, of "The Ballad of the Golden Bird"; sketchbook, 1985, of Kenna Crawford containing manuscript poem of George Mackay Brown.
Dates:
1986-1995.
Manuscript of an unpublished poem, `Six Wee Haufs`, by George Mackay Brown, with a copy of `Phoenix: Moray House Review` (1961), in which two of the six sections were published as single poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.13122
Dates:
circa 1961.
Notes of Peter Butter relating to George Mackay Brown ; press relating to George Mackay Brown collected by Peter Butter., Circa 1992-1996.
File
Identifier: Acc.13634/69
Scope and Contents
File named ‘PB’s notes on: GMB, CMG, Henry James’ by Peter Butter.
Dates:
Circa 1992-1996.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Research papers and literary correspondence between Peter Butter and various correspondents relating to his work on Edwin and Willa Muir, William Blake, Francis Thompson and other writers.
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Research papers of Peter Butter relating to his work on William Blake, George MacDonald, Francis Thompson and other writers.
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Research papers of Peter Butter relating to his work on various writers.
Photocopy of a poem of George Mackay Brown, entitled "Michael Sheridan".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12320
Dates:
1994.
Poems of George Mackay Brown, including acrostic poems, and other poems included in Christmas cards.
File
Identifier: Acc.14441
Dates:
1977-1986.