biography
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| lived:
| (1735–1803)
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| biography:
| Poet and essayist, born in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, UK. After some years as a schoolmaster in Fordoun he became a master at Aberdeen Grammar School, and in 1760 professor of moral philosophy at Aberdeen. He is chiefly remembered for his long poem, The Minstrel (1771–74), a forerunner of Romanticism. |
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