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Poetry

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Brotherstone Laughton, 02 July 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/24
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Brotherstone Laughton introducing himself as the only remaining member of the Oineromathic Club, suggesting the publication of some poems by Edward Forbes, and offering some for this purpose.

Dates: 02 July 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence concerning the compilation of 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from O. L. Richmond, c1920

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1516
Scope and Contents

Letter, [n.d], O. L. Richmond to Donald Tovey. A poem for Tovey on his wisdom and mastery of music. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Hilaire Belloc, 08 July 1911

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2042
Scope and Contents

Letter, 8 July 1911, Sussex, Hilaire Belloc to Sophie Weisse. Suggesting that Tovey put music to Belloc's children's verses. Typescript signed.

Dates: 08 July 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Mary V, c1900

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2548
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Letter, [n.d], Longniddry, Mary V to Sophie Weisse. Thanking Miss. Weisse for sending a copy of Nettleship's works, and enclosing poems for Miss. Weisse to read, news from Scotland. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

List of proverbs and vocabulary, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/30
Scope and Contents

List of proverbs and vocabulary. Also lists some Fenian poems noting that there are '44 verses in the Muileartach'. Carmichael gives the English equivalents for two of the proverbs (folio 60v).

Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Maitland, Richard. The selected poems of Sir Richard Metellan of Lydington, Late 16th century

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Identifier: De.3.71
Scope and Contents

This is a volume of collected poems of Sir Richard Maitland, Senator of the College of Justice, an Ordinary Lord of Session from 1561 until 1584, and notable Scottish poet.

Dates: Late 16th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection

Miscellaneous, late 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/5
Scope and Contents

The Miscellaneous series consists of:


  1. Poems, songs, notes and obituary notices.
Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

Monarchs of Scotland, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [066]
Scope and Contents

Latin verse copied out by Gregory, concerning the descent of royal rule in Scotland from earliest antiquity. An English description of the book from which he copied follows.

Dates: s.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Montgomery, Alexander. Poems, Late 16th century

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Identifier: De.3.70
Scope and Contents

This volume contains the poetic works of Alexander Montgomerie, Scottish Jacobean courtier and poet, he was one of the principal members of the Castalian Band. Montgomerie’s poetic output of over 100 pieces is mostly known from this volume, known as the Ker manuscript. Margaret Ker was the daughter of John Lord Herries of Newbattle Abbey, who was a neighbour of William Drummond of Hawthornden.

Dates: Late 16th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection

MS 203: Commento al 'Trionfo della Fama' di Petrarca by Jacopo Bracciolini, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 203
Contents The manuscript contains the text of a commentary to Petrarch's Triumph of Fame written by Jacopo Bracciolini and published for the first time in 1475. The Triumphs (Trionfi in Italian) are a series of allegorical poems written in vernacular Italian by the poet Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374). They take their title from the Roman tradition of the triumph, the spectacular procession in which the...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

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