Prose poems.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Literary works in prose, but having the concentrated rhythmic, figurative, sonorous language characteristic of poetry, written as a continuous sequence of sentences without line breaks.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing three volume press cutting collection of Gaelic verse, prose and related articles from Highland newspapers and periodicals., Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 4(1-3)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Copies, in various hands, of poetry and prose (mostly anonymous) in English, Latin, French, and Italian., [Early 19th century.]
File
Identifier: MS.2720
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
[Early 19th century.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).
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Commonplace-books, etc., of Richard Lovell Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown and his family, with some notes in pencil ascribing names, dates, etc., to poems.
Exercise books, manuscripts, and corrected typescripts containing prose and poetry of Marjorie Fleming., 1950-1963, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8685/1-9
Dates:
1950-1963, undated.
French prose translation of "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott: "La Dame du Lac" by Etienne-Aulède-Sophie Fevret de Saint-Mesmin, Vicomtesse de Juigné
Item
Identifier: Acc.10944
Dates:
1826.
Late 13th-century manuscript produced in France, possibly in the Lorraine region, containing the prose romance of Tristan.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.3
Scope and Contents
Late 13th-century manuscript produced France, possibly the Lorraine region, containing the prose romance of Tristan. Borland has attributed the manuscript to the early 14th century. Meyer and Vinaver both assigned it to the 13th century. Johnson suggests that the manuscript was possibly written from dictation by a scribe accustomed to the forms of Old French prevalent in Lorraine. The work is written in triple columns of 60 lines each, except where lais or chansons are introduced. ...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Letters of Professor Alexander McCall Smith, 2007-2022
File
Identifier: MS.50717
Scope and Contents
Letters and greeting cards of Professor Alexander McCall Smith to Lucinda Mackay regarding social occasions, invitations, shared cultural interests, writing projects, and news of family life. Correspondents also include McCall Smith's wife Elizabeth and his assistant Lesley Winton. File also includes poems written and presented by McCall Smith to Lucinda Mackay for her birthdays in 2012, 2021, and 2022; brief correspondence concerning a filmed interview undertaken between Mackay and McCall...
Dates:
2007-2022
Microfilm of 13th century manuscript, the prose romance of Tristan.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.85
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Songs for voice and piano, 1905 and earlier, by Sir John B McEwen (autograph)., 1905, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6298, folios 15-31
Scope and Contents
The contents include: three settings of Verlaine (translated by Ashmore Wingate), published as ‘Three songs’ (1906); "Love's but a dance" (1906) to words by Austin Dobson; and unpublished settings of poems by Justin McCarthy and Arthur Symons.
Dates:
1905, undated.