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 5 Collections and/or Records:
Gaelic verse mostly of Badenoch poets, collected in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and formerly held in the Cluny Charter Chest.
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Identifier: Acc.11044
Scope and Contents
A collection of Gaelic verse, mostly of poets from the Badenoch area. It was written down in the late 18th century, with some later additions at the end. Most of the songs were published by Thomas Sinton in his article "Gaelic poetry from the Cluny charter chest", 'Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness' XXIII (1898-1899), pp. 247-281 (referred to below as "Sinton, TGSI"), and again in 'The Poetry of Badenoch' (Inverness 1906) by the same author.The collection was...
Dates:
1791-1801 and undated.
Lament for Archibald of Keppoch., ca. 1945
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Identifier: Acc.13865/6
Scope and Contents
Drafts of text and translation of "Cumha Ghille-Easbuig na Ceapaich" ("Lament for Archibald of Keppoch")
Dates:
ca. 1945
The Montrose campaign., ca. 1945
File
Identifier: Acc.13865/4
Scope and Contents
Drafts of introductory text, and of song texts, notes and translations of: "Latha Inbhir Lochaidh" ("The Battle of Inverlochy"); "Òran do Alasdair Mac Colla an deidh La Allt Eireann" ("Song to Alasdair Mac Colla after the Battle of Auldearn"); "Soraidh do 'n Ghreumach" ("Farewell to the Marquis of Graham"); "Cumha Aonghuis na Ceapaich" ("Lament for Angus, son of Raghnall Òg of Keppoch"); "Òran do dh'Alasdair Mac Colla" ("Lament for Alexander son of Coll"); "Òran mu ghlacadh Mhorair...
Dates:
ca. 1945
The Union., ca. 1945
File
Identifier: Acc.13865/8
Scope and Contents
Text, notes and translation of "Òran an aghaidh an 'Uinein'" ("Song against the Union between Scotland and England").
Dates:
ca. 1945
Typescript of "The Life and Works of John MacDonald (Iain Lom)", 1945
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Identifier: Acc.13865/1
Scope and Contents
Draft typescript with handwritten annotations of an edition of the poetry of Iain Lom with notes and historical introductions, probably originally bound in two volumes, with the second one now lost. Translations of the poems, notes on the introductions, bibliography and appendices are listed in the table of contents, but do not form part of this typescript. Translations of most of the poems can be found in the folders of draft material on individual chapters. With a stamp on the cover by...
Dates:
1945