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Poetry

 Subject

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

Found in 113 Collections and/or Records:

Receipts and other papers of the Campbell and Arthur families of Patna, Ayrshire

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1552
Scope and Contents The papers in this small collection are from the Campbell and Arthur families of Patna, Ayrshire. They date between 1779 and 1887. They include: Receipt dated Edinburgh 29 May 1862. received from Mr. David Arthur five punds fifteen shillings being Years Rent for subjects occupied by him at Patna Village Order or Receipt, dated Dallmellington 27 November 1867, Wm. stewart to...
Dates: 1860-1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Review: Out on a limb (Scotland on Sunday), 22 Oct 2000

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/346
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 22 Oct 2000
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Information Resources / Press Cuttings / Press Cuttings

Robert Nye papers

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-54
Scope and Contents The collection includes, largely: working notes; drafts; typescripts; correspondence; source material; and, publishing house material. The collection, received at various points since the 1990s, is formed by the following components: MSS 2881-2916 (35 archive boxes), containing material relating to: Merlin - working notes, drafts, typescript, copies of source...
Dates: 1969-2005
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Scotsgay Issue 56, Feb 2004

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/8/15
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: Feb 2004
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Information Resources / Press Cuttings / Press Cuttings

Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, including two manuscript poems by Walter de la Mare

 Item — Box CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1834
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, sister-in-law of poet Walter de la Mare. It contains numerous newspaper clippings, some relating to de la Mare's fiction and articles by him; and two unpublished poems by Walter to his nephew James Roy Delamare.

Dates: 1884-1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Scrapbook containing letters from John Masefield to Elizabeth Talbot Rice

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-360
Identifier: Coll-1844
Scope and Contents Scrapbook containing approx. 30 signed letters and Christmas cards from John Masefield to Elizabeth Talbot Rice. Some of them are illustrated, some others contain unpublished poems written specifically for Elizabeth. Also includes a signed photograph of John Masefield with his cat, and an envelope with three wax seals.Some of the most interesting letters include: Letter on p. 1 containing a...
Dates: 1930s-1960s (before 1967)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Sermons by Andrew Gray (1633-1656), minister of the Outer High Kirk, Glasgow

 Fonds
Identifier: MS GRA 3
Scope and Contents Bound volume with manuscript sermons and lectures. The majority of the text is in a clear but loose secretary style, however there are frequent additions by more modern hands throughout. In 5 parts:1. Substance of Sermons by Rev. Andrew Gray of Glasgow, on Canticles, chapter I and II. The first sermon is dated 26 March 16612. Several sermons by Rev. William Guthie of Fenwick, on Mark XVI3. Sacred Poem consisting of 69 stanzas, but wanting the first 5.5...
Dates: 1661-1665
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Short poem on resisting vices, 2nd half of the 15th century

 part
Identifier: MS 324/ff 41r-41v
Contents

The twelve verses are introduced by the rubric Versus exhortationis ad vitia expellenda. They begin on f. 41r with the words Si tua volueris (sic) neque publica iura vereri and end on f. 41v with Quo semel imbutus testa tenere solet.

Dates: 2nd half of the 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing seven texts

Sidney, Sir Philip. Astrophel and Stella written by Sr. Philip Sydny knight, Late 16th century

 Item
Identifier: De.5.96
Scope and Contents

This volume contains Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. It was written for or by Sir Edward Dymoke, who met and exchanged verses with William Fowler in Padua in 1591 or 1592. The manuscript may have come to William Drummond through this association of his uncle. It is wanting all between sonnet and song ix.

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

Signed copies of poems of George Mann MacBeth

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1459
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of 3 x mimeographed typescript copies of poems, being:


  1. 'The Wasp-Woman', after Ponge - signed George MacBeth
  2. 'Noah's Journey' [1966] - signed George MacBeth
  3. 'The Castle', after le Chastel d'Amours - signed George MacBeth
Dates: 1969-1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections