Scottish poetry -- 20th century
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Poetry notebooks, c 1986
Notebooks containing poetry, prose texts, and notes by Roddy Lumsden. One notebook is dated "First Winter 1986" on the cover.
Professor (Jack) John C. Weston papers, being material relating to the Hugh MacDiarmid editions, 'Collected poems', and 'A Drunk man looks at the thistle'
The collection contains proofs of A Drunk man looks at the thistle edited by Weston, ms and ts research material for the edition, correspondence with a wide range of people in the literary world and in publishing, newspaper cuttings, journal articles, and other printed ephemera.the Weston
Texts in prose, undated
Unbound typescript of prose texts and a few poems: "One", "Midnight Mall", "The Unexplorer", "The Cover Song", "The House to Myself", "Orange-Picking", "Ruins", "Blue Overalls", "Nun", "The Bad Complexion", "To a Small Town Suicide" (poem), "Continent of Rain" (poem), "Checking", "Mince", "Child in the back" (poem), "Sleeve notes".
"The Kind of Poetry I Want", 1961
1. Original manuscript of "The Kind of Poetry I Want", 49 ff., pen, no date. Also includes the correspondence dated 1961 of bookseller Kulgin D. Duval with printer Giovanni Mardersteig from the Officina Bodoni, Verona, and R. H. Boothroyd, from the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, concerning the printing of the text.
2. "The Kind of Poetry I Want", extracts, 18 ff., pen, pencil, and typescript.
"The Late Robin Black", 1963
"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.
"The Stone of the Dog, in Glen Lyon", "The Terms", and "The Wild Swan", undated
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.
Two poems from "Impavidi Progrediamur": "The Highlanders are not a Sensitive People" and " The Nature of a Bird's World", c 1962
Two poems from "Impavidi Progrediamur": "The Highlanders are not a Sensitive People", and " The Nature of a Bird's World", 12 ff. in total, pen.
Typescript of "The Kind of Poetry I Want" by Hugh MacDiarmid, 1960-1962
University, 1985-1987; 1995
Documents relating to Lumsden's time at the University of Edinburgh, including pass certificates, envelopes, philosophy exam paper, graduation booklet and leaflets. There is also a typescript poem starting with "Sat on the edge of your bed".
"Virgilium vidi tantum: On Shakespeare’s Quatercentenary", 1964
"Virgilium vidi tantum…", holograph copy, pen, 2pp, and "Virgilium vidi tantum…", manuscript, pencil, 2pp, and "Virgilium vidi tantum…" as submitted to the Arts Council of Great Britain for Shakespeare’s Quatercentenary, typescript, 2pp, and manuscript letter from "Christopher" (Hugh MacDiarmid), Brownsbank, 5 April 1964, to "Dear Kulgin" (Kulgin Duval), 1p.