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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 1254 Collections and/or Records:

Corrected manuscripts of three poems, undated, in Gaelic of Maoilios M Caimbeul.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9534
Scope and Contents

With inscribed copies of Caimbeul`s poetry collections, "Eileanan" (1980) and "Bailtean" (1987).

Dates: 1980-1987 and undated.

Corrected proofs of John Bellany and Alan Bold, "Homage to MacDiarmid".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9156
Scope and Contents

With lithographic plates, and manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem.

Dates: circa 1986.

Corrected typescripts of "Brand the Builder" by Tom Scott.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12273
Scope and Contents

Includes artwork for the Ember Press edition of "Brand the Builder", and typescripts of other poems.

Dates: circa 1974-1975.

Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12342/1-203
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1930-2005.

Correspondence and manuscripts of Agnes Ethel Mackay (died 1980).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26891-26894
Scope and Contents

Agnes Mackay was born and educated in Scotland, but spent much of her life in France. During the German Occupation, she lived in St Tropez with her cousin, Marion Melville, and they moved to Paris after the war. Her publications included poetry, biographies of Paul Valery and Arthur Melville, and critical works on art and literature.

Dates: 1917-1976, undated.

Correspondence and other papers of John Richardson, of Kirklands, Writer to the Signet, and his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3989-3992
Scope and Contents

A note on John Richardson's children will be found in MS.3989, folio i.

Dates: 19th century.

Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.23761-23930
Scope and Contents

Alexander Carlyle's papers consist chiefly of journals, sermons, lectures, autobiographical writings, writings on various topics, poetry and papers on church and other affairs. The later papers (MSS.23927-23930) consist of a list of his books, excerpts from his writings and excerpts of proceedings in the action against him by the Presbytery of Dalkeith.

Dates: 1743-1944, undated.