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 1254 Collections and/or Records:
Album of Eliza Boothby containing verses and drawings by various hands.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12164
Dates:
1835.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Album of occasional verse, verse epistles, etc., apparently by Lady Frances Scott, afterwards Baroness Douglas.
Item
Identifier: MS.3814
Dates:
1762, 1774-1782.
Album of poetry compiled by Isabella Farquharson Will.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6844
Scope and Contents
Containing lithographs of Frederick Schenck, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1852.
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.
"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.]
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 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 poem concerning the play, "The Battle of Bothwell Brig".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5586
Dates:
circa 1823.
Apparently unpublished poem by Mrs Alison Cockburn entitled 'Adieu to My Garden 23rd Novʳ. 1777', tipped into a copy of ‘Letters and Memoir of her own Life by Mrs Alison Rutherford or Cockburn’ (Edinburgh, 1900).
File
Identifier: MS.8892
Scope and Contents
On the page facing the half-title page is an inscription dated May 1900 of T Craig-Brown, who compiled the notes to the printed work, presenting this copy to his daughter.
Dates:
1777.
Approximately 80 notebooks and files, 1973-2003 and undated, of Tessa Ransford, containing draft poetry and prose, literary notes and research, holiday diaries and other personal papers; with a few university notebooks, circa 1960.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13195
Scope and Contents
A collection of XXX notebooks and several files of Tessa Ransford, relating mainly to her literary and creative life as a poet and writer. Also includes a few notebooks from her student days at Edinburgh University.
Dates:
1960-2003.
Arabic astrological text, ? 19th century.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8889
Scope and Contents
With Burmese prayer woven on a tape, roll containing a poem, an inscription, and a painting by Ch`êng Chih-You, with accompanying ink blocks, all undated.
Dates:
? 19th century and undated.
Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany of prose and verse, chiefly Scottish, written almost entirely by John Asloan early in the reign of James V (1513-1542).
Item
Identifier: MS.16500
Scope and Contents
On folio ii is a contents list by Lord Auchinleck, which gives the present state of the manuscript; on folios iii-iv are John Asloan's own list, with the items numbered, from which it appears that large parts of the original have been lost.The present contents are:John of Ireland, on penance and confession (folio 1, numbers i-xii);'The buke of ye chess', a metrical translation of the treatise of Jacobus de Cassolis (folio 41, number xii [repeated]);...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
'Auchinleck manuscript', one of the earliest and largest compilations of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.1
Scope and Contents
The following description was based primarily upon the conclusions of Pearsall and Cunningham (1977) and Burnley and Wiggins (2003). The numbering system of the items follows that of Pearsall and Cunningham.The Auchinleck manuscript was probably written in London at some point between 1331 and 1340. These dates can be assigned on the basis of palaeographical evidence and internal references. One of these references is the ending of the 'The Anonymous Short English Metrical...
Dates:
1331 - 1340.
Audio cassette of a sound recording of "Skuil-Bairns Sing", a collection of Scots nursery rhymes, songs and poems, presented by children of Gourock Primary School.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6546
Dates:
1975.
Audio cassettes of recordings of the works of William Soutar, produced by Scotsoun.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6805/1-4
Dates:
1976.
Audio cassettes produced by Scotsoun of recordings of readings from Hugh MacDiarmid.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10678/1-2
Dates:
1988, 1992.
Audio recording, [from the insert] "Waves and Furrows. The Poetry of David Morrison, Read by Himself".
Item
Identifier: MS.50255
Dates:
1992.
Audio recordings of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.
Series
Identifier: MSS.50252-50253
Dates:
[1955-1956].
Audiocassette of a recording of "Twa Leids" (Glasgow: Scotsoun, 1988), a collection of Scots and Gaelic poetry in translation.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9738
Dates:
1988.
"Auld Robin Gray".
Item
Identifier: Acc.3344
Scope and Contents
Includes "The Rose" and additional verses written in an unidentified hand.
Dates:
late 18th century