Scotland -- Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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
"The Late Robin Black", 1963
Item
Identifier: Coll-2124/3/7
Scope and Contents
"The Late Robin Black" [1963], manuscript, pen, 6pp, with a letter from MacDiarmid dated 20 February 1963, Brownsbank, to Tom Spence, editor of Forward Scotland, alongside which the piece was enclosed.
Dates:
1963
"The Stone of the Dog, in Glen Lyon", "The Terms", and "The Wild Swan", undated
File
Identifier: Coll-2124/2/4
Scope and Contents
1. "The Stone of the Dog, in Glen Lyon", manuscript, pen, 1p.
2. "The Terns", manuscript, pen, 1p.
3. "The Wild Swan", manuscript, pen, 1p.
Dates:
undated
Third Anniversary Address to the Alexander Anderson 'Surfaceman' Club, c 1913
Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0061
Scope and Contents
This is a notebook containing the third Anniversary Address to the Alexander Anderson 'Surfaceman' Club. It is not dated but internal evidence points to 1913. The speaker is not identified but is presumably the S. M. Murray of Edinburgh, whose name is in pencil at the beginning of the notebook. The speaker is, in fact, a last-minute stand-in, who apologizes for not having known Anderson personally, briefly sketches his life, then describes his poetic themes with copious quotation. It's not,...
Dates:
c 1913
Typescript of "The Kind of Poetry I Want" by Hugh MacDiarmid, 1960-1962
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0207
Scope and Contents
Ten-page typescript of a section of Hugh MacDiarmid's poem "The Kind of Poetry I Want", presumably the script for a reading from the poem broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 14 March 1960. The script is enclosed within a first edition of The Kind of Poetry I Want (Edinburgh: K. D. Duval, 1961), inscribed to "Geoffrey Bridson with every high regard and best wishes for 1962, Hugh MacDiarmid". Bridson produced, arranged, and introduced the...
Dates:
1960-1962
Watercolour painting depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, c 1815
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0050
Scope and Contents
This is a watercolour painting of a scene from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake, by Thomas Stothard, signed. The scene depicts Ellen Douglas and James Fitz-James (i.e. King James V of Scotland in disguise) on a rocky shore (of Loch Katrine), with him in a skiff, holding a pole. This is either the moment of going ashore, in Canto I of Scott's poem, or the moment in Canto II, when he departs the next day. The hunting horn (small) with which he...
Dates:
c 1815