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Biography

Name: Robert Fergusson
Birth Date: September 5, 1750
Death Date: October 17, 1774
Nationality: British, Scottish
Gender: Male

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Biography of Robert Fergusson
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Robert Fergusson was born in Edinburgh on 5 September 1750, the fourth child of William and Elizabeth Forbes Fergusson, who had moved to that city from rural Aberdeen a few years earlier. His father, an educated, restless, and somewhat disappointed...


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Robert Fergusson Quotes
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Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part; Each comic heart must now be grieved to see The Sexton's dreary part performed on...


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Robert Fergusson Information
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Robert Fergusson (September 5, 1750 - October 16, 1774), Scottish poet, son of William Fergusson, a clerk in the British Linen Company, was born at...


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Fergusson and the bycultural canon. (Literature).(Scottish poet Robert Fergusson)
07/01/2002: 8,244 words, approx. 28 pages
WRITING THIS ESSAY places me in a position somewhat analogous to that of Robert Fergusson in his address, "To the Principal and Professors of the University of St Andrews". When he referred to them as "my winsome billy boys", he was, as poets...
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The Modern Language Review
Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland.(Heaven-Taught Fergusson': Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet)(Book Review)
10/01/2005: 1,227 words, approx. 4 pages
Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland. By LIAM MCILVANNEY. East Linton: Tuckwell. 2002. x+262 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-86232-177-9. Heaven-Taught Fergusson': Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet. Ed. by ROBERT CRAWFORD. East Linton: Tuckwell. 2003. xii+239 pp. 14.99...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by F. W. Freeman
11,533 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following excerpt, Freeman discusses the political views that influenced Fergusson's poetry, characterizing Fergusson as a resolute Scots Tory, Jacobite and nationalist who was often "openly anti-England, Hanover, and Whig," and a "most uncompromisingly political poet."
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Critical Essay by David Daiches
10,816 words, approx. 36 pages
Daiches is an English critic. In the following excerpt, he offers a chronological discussion of Fergusson's poetry, with a view to describing the poet's artistic development.
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Critical Essay by Allan H. MacLaine
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In the following excerpt, MacLaine offers an overview of the Scots poetic tradition and discusses Fergusson's place in the Scots poetic revival of the eighteenth century, summarizing his achievement "from both the historical and purely literary points of view. "
 


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