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 2780 Collections and/or Records:
Album of verses, riddles and drawings.
Item
Identifier: MS.10783
Scope and Contents
Most of the entries are dated from 1825 to 1828, and some were made at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The book belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Russell Davison, of the Wilson family of Roxburghshire.
Dates:
1822-1853.
Album, undated, of verse and prose of the 1st Earl of Minto., Late 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.12825
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Dates:
Late 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.
Albums of published articles and verse by Jan Struther, with related press cuttings., 1914-1955, 1972-2010.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/1-16
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914-1955, 1972-2010.
Albums of verse by Sir Gilbert Elliot., 1745-1777.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12816-12819
Scope and Contents
Many of the poems are repeated.
Dates:
1745-1777.
Albums of verses in various hands of members of the Minto family., 1805-1806.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12826-12827
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Dates:
1805-1806.
Albyn Place School Magazine including a poem, 'High street, old Aberdeen', by Janet Adam Smith., April 1920.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/41
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
April 1920.
Albyn Place School magazine including a poem, 'The Cairngorms', by Janet Adam Smith., December 1919.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/40
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
December 1919.
Albyn Place School Magazines., 1919-1920, 1923.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/40-42
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
1919-1920, 1923.
Alexander Craib, FSA, printed poem "Picturesque New Pitsligo"., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/525
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Pitsligo and New Pitsligo estate papers.
“Amateur's companion” (undated), and ‘Mary of Castlecary’ or ‘Saw ye my wee thing’, (undated), bound up with a small collection of Scottish tunes in manuscript, [circa 1824]., [Circa 1824], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21737
Dates:
[Circa 1824], undated.
"An Aon Dleasnas"/"The One Duty", typescripts of poem of James S Adam for Alastair and Dorothy Dunnett.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10485
Scope and Contents
English and Gaelic texts.
Dates:
1991.
‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.337-340
Dates:
[1786, or after.]
‘Ancient Scottish poems’, volume I, part I (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun., [1786, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.337
Scope and Contents
Inserted at the beginning of the volume is a letter of David Macpherson to the Earl of Buchan about his edition of Wyntoun, 1794.
Dates:
[1786, or after.]
‘Ancient Scottish poems’, volume I, part II (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun., [1786, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.338
‘Ancient Scottish poems’, volume II, part I (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun., [1786, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.339
‘Ancient Scottish poems’, volume II, part II (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun., [1786, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.340
Anecdotes about Highland ministers, and a few poems in Gaelic on ministers and parishes, compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson ., [Before 1928.]
File
Identifier: MS.470
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning folklore, traditions etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Animadversions by Henry Cockburn on his client, the murderer David Haggart, and on ‘The convict’, a poem occasioned by his execution; written in a copy of ‘The convict’ (Edinburgh, 1821).
Item
Identifier: MS.135
Dates:
[1821, or after.]
Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10651
Scope and Contents
Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.
Dates:
circa 1950-1984.
Annotated copy of 'Selected poems' (Edinburgh, 1966) by Robert Garioch., [1966, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26585
Scope and Contents
Some of the corrections were incorporated in the ‘Collected poems’ (Loanhead, 1977).
Dates:
[1966, or after.]
Annotated typescripts of eight poems of W S Graham.
File
Identifier: Acc.11274
Dates:
1941-1977 and undated.
`Annotationes in Aristotelis physicam`: a volume of lecture notes taken by James Barclay from lectures by Robert Barron at St Salvator`s College, St Andrews.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.1
Scope and Contents
The notes are followed by `Tractatus continens doctrinam Astronomicam` (folio 189), verses on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, in 1612 (folio 199 verso), and `Solutio quorundam problematum ad elementorum explicationem pertinentium` (folio 201).
Dates:
1620-1621.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1789-1821.
File
Identifier: MS.4889
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of a pamphlet entitled ‘Ten minutes of reflection on the late events in France. Recommended by a plain man to his fellow citizens’ (Woodbridge, 1793). (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1803, of two apparently unpublished poetical letters, 'The new Oxford guide', which follow very closely the form and style of Christopher Anstey's ‘The new Bath guide’ (London, 1766), and therefore may possibly be by Christopher Anstey himself. (Folio...
Dates:
1789-1821.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1823-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.4890
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of two poems by Robert Brown Cunnynghame entitled “Tales o' the daft days. The mistress's tale or The hunt the gowk” and “Tale third. The boarding school Miss's tale or Bailie Blair's courtship”. These are apparently unpublished continuations of the three parts of “Tales o' the daft days” published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, November and December 1822, and March 1823. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1823, of an apparently...
Dates:
1823-1840.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Anonymous poem concerning the play, "The Battle of Bothwell Brig".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5586
Dates:
circa 1823.