Dialect poetry, Scottish
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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 Forty-seven poems by Gall (of which some unpublished), nearly all with corrections and variant readings, some present in several different copies, two in apparently...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
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
Settings by Francis G. Scott for lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid and Robert Burns, 1923-1940
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-2124/8/1
Scope and Contents
This series consists of music settings by Francis George Scott for lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid and Robert Burns.1. Settings by Francis George Scott for lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid, being: "Crowdieknow" (1924); "Milkwort and Bog-cotton" (1932); "The Sauchs
in the Reuch Heuch Hauch" (1940); "Country Life’(1923); ‘Sabine" (1924); "Penny Wheep"; "The Love-sick lass" (1924); "There’s an unco tune"; "The 3 Fishes"; and, "At the window" (1930). 43 folios.2. Settings by Francis...
Dates:
1923-1940