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 6 Collections and/or Records:
Corrected manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "Returning Exile".
File
Identifier: Acc.4460
Scope and Contents
With typescript of the poem.
Dates:
circa 1968.
Iain Crichton Smith, translations from Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir', ca. 1970
File
Identifier: Acc.13916/18
Scope and Contents
Verse translations by Iain Crichton Smith of a selection of poems of Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir' (I-IV, VIII, XIV, XVII-XXIV, XXVII-XXXV, XXXVII, XLII-XLIII, XLV, XLVIII-L, LII, LIV-LV, LVII (3 versions). Iain Crichton Smith's translations were published in 1971.
Dates:
ca. 1970
Manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "The Ladder of Experience".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5983
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 1973.
Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12600/1-65
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1946, 1962-2000.
Video tape of a recording of a poetry reading by Joy Hendry, Norman MacCaig, William Neill and Iain Crichton Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12310
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of Valda Grieve, Brian Merriken Hill, Henry Mair, William Neill and Jim C Wilson.
Dates:
circa 1982-2003.