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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 1258 Collections and/or Records:

Editorial papers of `Printed, spoken`, a little poetry magazine edited by Richard Price, comprising mainly correspondence and typescripts of poems.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13246
Scope and Contents Painted, spoken is a little poetry magazine founded and edited by Richard Price. The magazine is independently funded and is essentially in the modernist tradition, combining a range of Scottish contemporary writing with English experimental poetry. Price does not accept unsolicited submissions, preferring to assemble the content from poets he already knows or has come into contact with. This policy means that the editorial papers are particularly rich in correspondence with poets, and...
Dates: 2000-2010.

Eight letters to David Morrison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13341
Scope and Contents

Eight letters, 1984-2010, to David Morrison; correspondents include Alasdair Gray, Norman MacCaig and John Manson. With manuscript drafts of two poems by David Morrison.

Dates: 1984-2010.

Eighty-four letters and cards of Edwin Morgan to Richard Price; with manuscript of unpublished poem, "The Ropemaker`s Bride".

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13384
Scope and Contents The collection records the affectionate last years of a stimulating literary relationship between Edwin Morgan and the younger, ‘Informationist’ poet, Richard Price. They first met in the 1980s when Price, then a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, went to visit Morgan. Both technophiles and both love poets, they struck up a lasting friendship, corresponding from then until the mid 2000s. This collection marks the last period of their correspondence, covering 2003-2006 (for earlier...
Dates: 2003-2006.

Electronic (DVD) copy of `Selected Poems One, 1964-1988` by Robin Fulton.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13146
Scope and Contents

A selection of poems made by the poet Robin Fulton MacPherson from his own work. The majority of the poems appeared in earlier collections, though some are unpublished.

The collection has since been published in `A Northern Habitat: collected poems, 1960-2010`, Robin Fulton Macpherson (Grosse Pointe Farms: Marick Press, 2013).

Lists of where the poems in `A Northern Habitat` were first published, and of translations, were added to the accession in June 2014.

Dates: circa 2010.

Eleven monthly parts of the family magazine, 'The Star', written by the Bigg family of Carnwath.

 File
Identifier: MS.9171
Scope and Contents

The issues contain stories, verse, news of family affairs, and a few drawings, in the handwriting of the various contributors. The May issue is missing.

Dates: 1866.

‘Elogia et judicia doctorum de Scotis’, poems, chiefly in Latin, collected by, and in the hand of, Sir Robert Sibbald.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.4
Scope and Contents

A collection of verses by various authors in honour of Scotsmen.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: N.7.15.

Dates: 17th century.

Exercise-book, containing 'Lord John, a Fife Tale', a poem, ?1895, by Thomas Swan, handloom weaver, Leslie, Fife.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3015
Scope and Contents

Other poems (one of circa 1893) and letters with which Thomas Swan sent them to Professors David Masson and John Chiene, 1895, have been inserted at the beginning.

Dates: [Circa 1893], 1895.

Facsimiles of the original manuscript of two poems of Edward Lear.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1535-1536
Dates: Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

‘Fair assembly. A Poem in the Royal Stanza’ by Allan Ramsay, and in his autograph.

 Item
Identifier: MS.567
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains six stanzas and a few notes additional to those published in Allan Ramsay's ‘Poems’, volume ii, page 195.

Dates: [?1723.]

Fair copies by Frances A M Russell, of her own poems.

 File
Identifier: MS.15939
Scope and Contents

Many of the poems refer to Frances Russell’s own family and events at Minto.

The poems are followed (folio 83) by a description of Russell’s last hours.

Dates: 1835-1896.

Fair manuscript copies of two poems by George Campbell Hay: `The Sun Over Athens` and `Jebel and the Dayspring`. Both are signed by the poet.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.13211
Scope and Contents

These two poems were written out and signed by George Campbell Hay, and given as a gift to a nurse who attended him during one of his periods of mental illness in the 1940s.

Dates: ? 1947.

Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16

"First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50700
Scope and Contents The "First Commonplace Book" of Robert Burns is the earliest collected work written by the poet. Written before he achieved national status following the publication of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' (1786), Burns himself explained the need to create the volume, hoping that after his death it would fall into the hands of someone who would appreciate their value.The "First Commonplace Book" contains some of Burns's earliest surviving work and contains examples of Burns's...
Dates: 1783-1785.

First edition of "A Book of Highland Minstrelsy" (1846), by Eliza Ogilvy.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14428
Scope and Contents

Includes two handwritten poems "Robin Burnt-Breast" and "The Alabama".

Dates: 1846.