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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 2789 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript copies of holograph poems of Sir Walter Scott., ?1825, [1827, or after], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 120-123
Scope and Contents

The poems are as follows:

'The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee', ?1825, slightly differing from the published version;

'When, noble Duke, in joy we met', probably referring to the cheering of Wellington by sailors at Sunderland, 1827;

'Fantastic maid, whose step from dewy morn', undated.

Dates: ?1825, [1827, or after], undated.

Typescript, 'Daunder oan the Mune, poems in Scots and English by Janet Paisley'; with annotations by Janet Paisley., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 1(4)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.

Dates: Undated.

Typescript draft of 'Garland for the winter solstice' by Ruthven Todd., [1961, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26833
Scope and Contents

The draft includes a number of poems which did not appear in the published version, together with notes (folio 49) and a later contents list (folio 51).

Dates: [1961, or before.]

Typescript miscellaneous poems of William Soutar with titles from A-E., [1917-1942.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8617
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: [1917-1942.]

Typescript miscellaneous poems of William Soutar with titles from F-O., [1917-1942.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8618
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: [1917-1942.]

Typescript miscellaneous poems of William Soutar with titles from P-S., [1917-1942.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8619
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: [1917-1942.]

Typescript miscellaneous poems of William Soutar with titles from T-The K., [1917-1942.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8620
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: [1917-1942.]

Typescript miscellaneous poems of William Soutar with titles from The L-The W., [1917-1942.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8621
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: [1917-1942.]

Typescript miscellaneous poems of William Soutar with titles from Tho-Y., [1917-1942.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8622
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: [1917-1942.]

Typescript of ‘But the Earth abideth’ by William Soutar., [1943, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.8587
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers consist of thirty-six sets of loose-leaf quarto sheets, each corresponding to a published volume. Each set has clearly been copied from earlier versions of the poems, and, in some cases, is the final copy used by the publisher.

Dates: [1943, or before.]

Typescript of ‘Gleanings by an undergraduate’ by William Soutar., [1923, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.8564
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers consist of thirty-six sets of loose-leaf quarto sheets, each corresponding to a published volume. Each set has clearly been copied from earlier versions of the poems, and, in some cases, is the final copy used by the publisher.

Dates: [1923, or before.]

Typescript of ‘In the time of tyrants’ by William Soutar., [1939, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.8585
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers consist of thirty-six sets of loose-leaf quarto sheets, each corresponding to a published volume. Each set has clearly been copied from earlier versions of the poems, and, in some cases, is the final copy used by the publisher.

Dates: [1939, or before.]