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Elegaic poetry

 Subject

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

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Elegiacs, 2nd century AD

 Item
Identifier: P.Oxy.14
Scope and Contents

Fragment containing portions of eighteen lines from an elegiac poem. There is a reference to a well-known passage of the Iliad in one of the couplets.


The script is a clear upright uncial, which may be assigned to the second century. There is a very deep margin (7.8 cm) at the top of the column, perhaps intended for scholia.

Dates: 2nd century AD
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection

Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/42
Scope and Contents

Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay noting how they made him think of 'Gray's elegy' and how 'I could wish to send the cut skull to the mu[seum] but am unwill[in]g to remove it. not right I think.'

Dates: 9 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Poems of William MacRitchie, (1754-1837), minister of Clunie, Perthshire

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCR
Scope and Contents Composite volume, mainly containing poems written by Rev. William MacRitchie in 1775.Item 1: Selection of items pasted into the front end board and flyleaf. Includes a short printed poem titled ‘Song; June, tho’ prudence may press me’, and sketches of Castle Stewart and a mountain at the head of Glencoe. 'Song; June...' appears later in the volume in manuscript at p.81.Item 2: Section titled ‘Poems chiefly in the year 1775, written on 164 numbered quarto pages. An...
Dates: 1775-1809
Found in: New College Library Special Collections