biography
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| lived:
| (1699–1746)
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| biography:
| Poet and preacher, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh University, and in 1731 was ordained minister of Athelstaneford, East Lothian. He is best known as the author of The Grave (1743), a blank-verse poem which heralded the ‘churchyard school’ of poetry. |
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