Scottish poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Biographies, 1951 (date of original) - 1992
Series — Box Coll-2128 Box 4 of 4: Series Coll-2128/4; Series Coll-2128/5; Series Coll-2128/6; Series Coll-2128/7
Identifier: Coll-2128/7
Scope and Contents
File containing biographies of D. E. Stevenson written by different people. "D. E. Stevenson - Authoress" by her son Major J. R. S. Peploe; "Face to Face with D. E. Stevenson, our South West Scotland 'Best Seller'" (interview); "The Novels of D. E. Stevenson" by her son Robin Peploe; "DE Stevenson: Her Life" from The Persephone Biannually; "Obituary" and "The Loch Ness Monster"; "D.E. Stevenson as I...
Dates:
1951 (date of original) - 1992
Bound manuscript entitled "A Collection of choice Songs English and Scots In Two Parts", compiled by John Robinson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2081
Scope and Contents
This is a bound collection of Scottish and English popular songs and ballads assembled and transcribed by John Robinson, an alumnus of Appleby Grammar School, who later served as Member of Parliament for Westmoreland.The volume is divided in two parts: part one, "Chiefly English", starts on p. 1, and ends on p. 74. The very first poem, entitled "Dedication", is taken from Scottish bookseller-poet Allan Ramsay's Tea-table miscellany:...
Dates:
1765
Bound volume of manuscript materials by and about Scottish poet Thomas Brown
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-1986
Content Description
Ths is a bound volume of manuscript material, correspondence and verse, by and about Thomas Brown, Scottish poet and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1810 until the end of his life in 1820. The collection was almost certainly put together by his friend and colleague William Erskine, to whom the vast majority of the manuscripts are addressed.Contents:
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Dates:
1797-1835
Collection of Manuscript Poems by Richard Gall and Related Materials
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2908
Scope and Contents
This is an archive of late eighteenth-century Scots poetry composed of over 40 poems in the hand of Scottish poet Richard Gall (1776-1801), together with 36 poems sent to Gall by writers in his circle, and materials relating to the posthumous publication of Gall's Poems and Songs in 1819.1. Forty-seven poems by Gall (of which some unpublished), nearly all with corrections and variant readings, some present in several different copies, two in apparently...
Dates:
c 1790-1819
Collection of Original Letters and Verses of Robert Burns, 2nd half of the 18th century
Item
Identifier: La.III.586
Scope and Contents
Collection of original letters and verses by Robert Burns.
Dates:
2nd half of the 18th century
Collection of poems by William Hamilton of Bangour, together with related material
Collection — Box CLX-A-1704
Identifier: Coll-2023
Content Description
Collection of loose-leaf manuscript verses by Jacobite poet and army officer William Hamilton of Bangour (1704-1754), together with related material. The collection appears to have emanated from a member of the Pringle family, who were related to Hamilton by marriage.The majority of the poems in this collection can be found either in the contemporary editions of Hamilton's poems, or in the later 1850 edition (see Bibliography). However, most of the present manuscript poems differ...
Dates:
ca 1730-1750
Correspondence with F. G. Scott, with enclosed poems, 1932-1957
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-2124/1/2
Scope and Contents
Ff. 1-2: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 22/07/1932.
Ff. 3-5: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 24/10/1932.
Ff. 6-8*: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 19/10/1939.
Ff. 9-10: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 20/11/1939.
Ff. 11-16: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 07/09/1940. Includes a manuscript text of "Auld Reekie", 5 ff., pencil.
F. 17: Letter from...
Dates:
1932-1957
Dr. Smith's Seann Dàna, 1908
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/2/6
Scope and Contents
Script or notes for a lecture about Dr. Smith's 'Seann Dàna' ('Old Poems').
Dates:
1908
'Linton Parish Poet', by Reverend Samuel McLintock, minister of West Linton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1928
Scope and Contents
Manuscript entitled 'Linton Parish Poets', probably by the Rev. Samuel McLintock, minister of West Linton from 1871 to 1922. West Linton is a Scottish village in the Borders.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century (before 1922)
Manuscript entitled: "Epitaph on Mrs. Hn. 1745", 1745
Item
Identifier: Coll-2023/1/6
Scope and Contents
This poem appears to be unpublished. It is presumably an epitaph to his wife Catherine (or Kathleen) Hall who died in 1745. It is written in a very neat cursive hand, somewhat neater than the other poems.
Dates:
1745