Smith, William, the Haddington Cobbler, A Collection of Original Poems (Edinburgh, 1821), Verses composed on the disgraceful traffic at present carried on of selling the newly dead (1829). The Haddington Cobbler Defended; or, The doctors dissected. By an East Linton Gravedigger. Being a reply to the poems published by the Resurrectionist men (1829); The Haddington Cobbler Dissected ... in answer to his objections against dissecting the dead. (It is not clear whether British Heroism, 1815, Johnson, item 846, is by the same William Smith. Ref: LC 4, 187-214. [S] [LC 4]
Smith, William Brown (1850-87), of Saltcoats, self-taught stationer and teacher, poet, evangelist, an invalid who died young, pub. Life Scenes, and Other Poems (1883). Smith was also a painter, trained a choir connected with the YMCA and at the time of his death was leader of praise in the Free Church, Saltcoats. Ref: Edwards, 11, 92-99; obituary in an unidentified press cutting, July 15th 1887. [S]
Snaddon, Alexander (b. 1842), of Collyland, Clackmannanshire, weaver, letter-carrier, pub. poems in Alloa Journal. Ref: Edwards, 8, 115-20. [S]
Snell, Henry James, working man of the stained glass works, Cumberland Market, London, pub. Love lies bleeding (London, ?1870), Poems: containing, The three twilights...The shipwreck, and minor poems (London, 1871). Ref: Reilly (2000), 429.
? Somerville, George Watson (b. 1847), of Edinburgh, stationer, printer, lived in Manchester, survived major illness, lived in Glasgow, Sunderland, Newcastle, settled in Carlisle. Ref: Edwards, 4, 170-4. [S]
? Somerville, Robert (b. 1831), of Halmyre, Peebleshire, Edinburgh grocer, bookseller, member of Edinburgh Council and Justice of the Peace. Ref: Edwards, 4, 163-4. [S]
Soutar, Alexander M. (b. 1846), of Muirdrum, Panbride, Forfarshire, farmworker, joiner, soldier, pub. Hearth Rhymes, with an introductory preface by Revd. William Rose (Dundee: A. A. Paul, 1880). ‘Mr Soutar is a Tradesman, and his time for cultivating the Muse has, therefore, been limited’. Ref: Edwards, 1, 101-04; Reilly (1994), 445; Charles Hart Catalogue 51, item 252. [S]
Soutar, Elizabeth (b. 1768), ‘The Blind Poetess’ of Dundee, born at Coupar Angus, daughter of a shoemaker, received some education. She lived in Dundee from age 13, and in 1835 published in Dundee a fifty-page book of poems and a memoir; rejected charity and maintained herself from sale of rhymes; wrote simple hymns. Ref: Reid, Bards, 437-8; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]
Southcott, Joanna (1750-1814), farmer’s daughter of Taleford, Devon, domestic servant in Exeter, self-described religious prophetess. From 1792 she began dictating prophecies in rhyme, producing sixty books of such prophecies in her lifetime. Her followers in the Panacea Society (established 1920, a charitable trust since 2012), continue to fund research. Ref ODNB, inf Dawn Whatman. [F]
Spalding, Colin (b. 1826), of Rattray, Perthshire, cook, valet, hotelier. Ref: Edwards, 12, 94-8. [S]
Spence, Charles (1779-1869), of Kinfauns, Perthshire, mason, pub. From the braes of the Carse: poems and songs, ed. by James M. Strachan (Perth, 1898). Ref: Reilly (2000), 431-2, Bodleian. [S]
Spence, Peter (1806-83), of Brechin, Forfarshire, son of a handloom weaver, failed grocer, successful practical chemist and inventer, lived in Perth, Carlisle and Manchester, pub. Poems (written in early life) (London, 1888). Ref: ODNB; Edwards, 13, 136-46; Reilly (1994), 446. [S]
Spence, Thomas (1750-1814), radical writer and bookseller, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, one of nineteen children of a net-maker and hardware supplier, became a schoolmaster, later a land plan advocate and London radical. ~ Spence was a radical who described himself as ‘the unfee’d Advocate of the disinherited seed of Adam’. He was born on the Quayside, one of the more impoverished areas of Newcastle. One of nineteen children, Thomas was denied a formal education and required to work at the age of ten. However, his father Jeremiah, a net-maker, encouraged him to read and critique the chapters of the Bible, and with the aid of Revd James Murray—a radical Presbyterian to whose breakaway congregation Thomas belonged—he was able to advance from being a clerk to becoming a schoolmaster by 1775. ~ Undoubtedly influenced by the Glassite congregation’s belief that in order to realise the millennial society in which all land is held in common, ‘men must act in concert’ (Political Works, viii), Spence published The Grand Repository of the English Language (1775), positing the virtue of a new phonetic alphabet for extending literacy in the ‘laborious part of the people’. Despite the work being met with a frosty reception upon publication, Spence persisted in propagating his phonetic alphabet throughout his life, and contemporary philologists consider his efforts decidedly significant. ~ Spence became a founder member of the Newcastle Philosophical Society in 1775, which included Thomas Bewick as well as James Murray. The catalyst for him delivering a lecture on The Real Rights of Man was a campaign he and Murray fought to preserve the Newcastle freemen’s customary rights by thwarting the corporation’s enclosure of the Town Moor. The reading represented the principle public occasion on which Spence detailed his land plan; it proposed that the parish should manage all land—the true source of political power—within its own boundaries, for the benefit of every inhabitant. Spence was expelled from the society when he published it without permission and hawked it about the streets of Newcastle, yet this did not prevent the land plan from remaining the backbone of his later radical political discourses. While in Newcastle, Spence produced his first recorded poem, ‘The Jubilee Hymn’, around 1782, and also began his coin-stamping venture, countermarking slogans to publicise his material. ~ Following the death of Murray; his publisher, Thomas Saint; and his discharge from St Ann’s School in Sandgate, Spence and his son moved to London, where by 1792 he surfaced as a radical bookseller and author. His vision of a welfare state was developed over many pamphlets, including The End of Oppression (1795), Description of Spensonia (1795), Rights of Infants (1797), and The Restorer of Society to its Natural State (1801). ~ Spence produced a periodical between 1793 and 1795 entitled, One Penny Worth of Pig’s Meat: Lessons for the Swinish Multitude. The journal signals a rejoinder to Burke’s bewailing of the post-revolution prospects of education in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)—where ‘learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hooves of a swinish multitude’—and reproduced selections from such writers as John Locke, Joseph Priestley and William Godwin. His own writings were not without irony or humour, and possessed a style tailored to convert poor men. Tim Burke (LC3, 268) notes that Spence’s ‘ballads of rural hardship pave the way for those of Wordsworth and Coleridge later in the decade, and his lyric works at times demonstrate something of the radical simplicity of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789-94) of the same period’. Anne Janowitz (1998, 79) suggests that song lyric and poetry make themselves heard in Spence’s prose polemics, ‘either as a coda, or a representational example, or as a performative exhortation’. Janowitz (72) views Spence as embodying an alternative trajectory of British Romanticism, articulating a ‘poetic activism which valued a collective voice, made a claim for cultural tradition, and directed poetry into the centre of political life’. ~ With the French Revolution instilling anxiety in the British authorities, repressive measures were called upon Spence’s propagandising: he was arrested on 20 May 1794 on suspicion of treasonable practices, and owing to the suspension of Habeas Corpus, held at Newgate Prison for seven months without trial. In 1798, Spence defended himself with great impudence against accusations of seditious practices and disaffection, and had to suffer a year in Shrewsbury Gaol. Spence was not easily silenced; on his release he published The Important Trial of Thomas Spence (1803) - first in his reformed spelling, later (1807) in conventional spelling. He died of a bowel complaint in Castle Street, London on 1 September 1814, but not before introducing two issues of a new periodical, The Giant Killer, or, Anti-Landlord, and attracting a band of disciples, who convened as a Free and Easy Club in local taverns to explore his ideas and sing his songs. Following his death, these Spencean Philanthropists perpetuated his convictions and engaged in such revolutionary activity as the Spa Field riots of 1816 and the Cato Street conspiracy of 1820. Furthermore, advocates of Spence’s land plan were active in the 1830s in both the National Union of the Working Classes and the Chartist movement. Published numerous unsuccessful theories on adult education and social justice, including The Grand Repository of the English Language (1775, Newcastle: T. Saint); A Supplement to the History of Robinson Crusoe (1782, Newcastle: T. Saint); The Real Reading Made Easy (1782, Newcastle: T. Saint); The Case of Thomas Spence, Bookseller (1792, London); The Rights of Man (1793, London); One Pennyworth of Pigs' Meat or Lessons for the Swinish Multitude, (2nd ed. Vols I, II, III, 1793-5; London); The Meridian Sun of Liberty (1795, London); The Coin Collector's Companion (1795, London); The End of Oppression (1795, London); The Reign of Felicity (1796, London); The Rights of Infants (1797, London); The Constitution of a Perfect Commonwealth (1798, London); The Restorer of Society to its Natural State (1801, London); The Important Trial of Thomas Spence (2nd edn, 1807, London); The Giant Killer, or Anti-Landlord nos. 1, 2 (1814, London). Pigs’ Meat: the Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer (ed. Gallop, G.I, 1982); The Political Works of Thomas Spence (ed. Dickinson, H.T, 1982). Ref: ODNB; LC 3, 267-74; Allen Davenport, The Life, Writing, and Principles of Thomas Spence (London, 1836); E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London: Gollancz, 1963); M Scrivener (ed) Poetry and Reform: Periodical Verse from the English Democratic Press 1792-1824 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982); P. M. Ashraf, The Life and Times of Thomas Spence (Newcastle: Frank Graham, 1983); Olivia Smith, The Politics of Language 1791-1819 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984); Malcolm Chase, ‘The People’s Farm’: English Radical Agrarianism, 1775-1840 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988); Iain McCalman, Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988); J. C. Beal, ‘Thomas Spence’ in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics eds. R.E. Asher & J. M. Y. Simpson (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994), 4319; J. C. Beal, English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence’s 'Grand Repository of the English Language’ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994); Marcus Wood, Radical Satire and Print Culture, 1790-1822 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994); Janowitz; Worrall. [LC 3] [—Iain Rowley]
Spencer, Richard (b. 1831), of Holbeck, Leeds, apprenticed to a brushmaking firm, pub. Field flowers: poems (Batley and Leeds, 1891). Ref: Reilly (1994), 446; England. 37, 57, 60.
Stagg, John (1770-1823), known as ‘The Blind Bard’, Cumberland poet of peasant life, lost sight in youth, Miscellaneous Poems (1790), Miscellaneous Poems, some of which are in the Cumberland and Scottish dialects (1804, 1805, 1807, 1808), The Minstrel of the North; or, Cumbrian legends (Manchester, 1816), The Cumbrian Minstrel: being a poetical miscellany of legendary, Gothic, and romantic tales … together with several essays in the northern dialect, also a number of original pieces (3 vols., Manchester, 1821), 2 vols; Legendary, gothic and romantic tales, in verse, and other original poems, and translations. By a northern minstrel (Shrewsbury, 1825). Ref: ODNB; Sparke, Cumb., 133-4; inf. Michael Baron; Johnson, items 850-7; Johnson 46, no. 332.
? Standing, James (1848-78), of Cliviger, near Burnley, bobbin maker from before the age of eight, later teacher, auctioneer and other jobs, learned French and German, pub. Lancashire and Yorkshire Comic, Historic and Poetic Almanack (1873-7), Ref: Abraham Stansfield, ‘Folk Speech of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border’, Essays and Sketches, being a few selections from the prose writings of twenty years (Manchester: Printed for the Author by the Manchester Scholastic Trading Co., 1897); Hollingworth (1977), 154-5.
Stanley, Benjamin (fl. 1864), ?cotton spinner, of ?Oldham, pub. Miscellaneous Poems, Written After Work Hours (Oldham: Hirst & Rennie, 1864), gathering together at the request of his friends many poems first published in newspapers. Preface states that from ‘the dawn of his earliest youth his work hours’ were ‘spent at the loom’. Ref: Pickering & Chatto, list 227, inf. Bob Heyes.
Stark, William (b. 1857), of Anderson, Glasgow, postal worker, pub. poems in newspapers. Ref: Edwards, 9, 232-8. [S]
Steel or Steele, Andrew (1811-82), of Coldstream, Berwickshire, shoemaker, pub. Poetical works, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1863), Poetical productions, 3rd edn (Edinburgh, 1864, 4th edn 1865), Select productions, 5th edn (Edinburgh, 1867), Poetical works (Edinburgh, 1871). Ref: Edwards, 3, 76-80 and 9, xx; Crockett, 158-62; Reilly (2000), 436. [S]
? Steel, Mrs, author of Pathetic and Religious Poems (London, 1839) seems a genuinely humble poet; possibly not Scottish. Ref: inf. Florence Boos. [F] ?[S]
Steel, William, letter carrier, later a concert singer, pub. Scotland’s Natural Songster: Songs and Addresses, Written and Sung by William Steel (Invercargill, 1865). Ref: Reilly (2000), 436. [S]
Stephens, Charles Taylor (b. 1863), of Liverpool, shoemaker by trade, became rural postman in Cornwall, living in St Ives, pub. The chief of Barat-Anac, and other poems, songs, &c. (St Ives and Penzance, 1862), 36 pp, Morrab Library, Penzance; preface states ‘These poems were not written with any intention to publish them, nor would they appear in print if the writer were able to earn a living at his trade’. Ref: Reilly (2000), 437; inf. Kaye Kossick. [LC6]
? Stephenson, William (b. 1763), of Newcastle upon Tyne, watchmaker disabled by an accident, schoolmaster, pub. a volume of poems in 1832. Ref: Allan, 119-21; ‘Tyneside Bards’ website http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/sang/bards.html#William.
? Stevens, George Alexander (1710-84), of Holborn, London, son of a tradesman who tried to apprentice him in a trade, but he ran away to become strolling player (according to ODNB, a rather bad actor); lecturer, playwright; pub. Religion, or, The Libertine Repentant: a Rhapsody (Bath, 1751); The Poet's Fall (Dublin, 1752); A Week's Adventures (Dublin, 1752); Distress upon Distress, (Dublin, 1752); The Tombs, a Rhapsody (Dublin, 1752); New Comic Songs (1753); The Birth-Day of Folly (1754); Collection of New Comic Songs (1759); Songs, Comic and Satyrical (1772, contains 134 songs). Ref: ODNB.
? Stevenson, Edith (‘Edith’), of Edinburgh, pub. The Yetts o’ Muckart: or, the famous pic-nic and the brilliant barn-ball, in hairst, auchteen-hunder an’ seventy-one (Edinburgh, 1872). Ref: Reilly (2000), 438. [F] [S]
Stevenson, Jane, mason’s wife whose husband died at 34, leaving her with five children, pub. Verses (Banff, 1866). Poems include ‘Arndilly,’ ‘The Banks of the Dee,’ and ‘My Own Life’. Ref: Boos (1998); Reilly (2000), 438; Boos (2008), 146-56; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]
Stevenson, Jane (fl. 1870), ‘The Rustic Maiden’; cattle herder, anonymously self-published her Homely Musings by a Rustic Maiden (Kilmarnock: Printed for the Author, 1870; online via Google Books and www.archive.org). The first page of her book’s preface recounts that Stevenson herded cows as girl, and memorized and imitated old popular songs. (The preface breaks off abruptly, and perhaps the second page is missing.) She was derided by her family for writing, however, and thenceforth she wrote in secret; pub. Homely Musings, by a Rustic Maiden (Kilmarnock: printed for the author, 1870). Poems include ‘Written on the Death of My Father and The Prospect of Then Leaving My Birthplace’, ‘Garnock Water’, ‘The Emigrant Youth.--Song,’ Home’, ‘Companions of My Youthful Years’, ‘Song’, ‘The Wandering Dog’, ‘The Bible’, ‘Critics, or the World’s Two Great Extremes’, ‘Song of the Engineers’, ‘Song of the Ploughmen’, ‘Song. The Homes of My Fathers’, accompanied by a prose account of her visit to where her parents’ families had lived, ‘Donald M’Donald, or My Sweet Highland Home,’ ‘The Prophetess, or Seer of Visions,’ ‘Song of the Trees,’ ‘Husband and Wife,’ ‘The Fairy Dale.’ She seems to have been impressed with the dreaming or prophetic state, for several poems describe fairies or prophecies. Ref: Boos (2008), 146-56; Burmester item 491 and p. 138; further notes by Florence Boos. Link: wcwp [F] [S]
Stevenson, John, of Paisley, weaver, appeared in miscellanies. Ref: Brown, I, 212-14. [S]
Stewart, Alexander (b. 1841), of Galston, Ayrshire, weaver, book-deliverer, city mission worker, pub. Bygone memories, and other poems, with an Introductory Preface by Alexander Macleod (Edinburgh, 1888). Ref: Edwards, 10, 120-9; Reilly (1994), 453. [S]
Stewart, Allan (1812-37), of Paisley, drawboy and weaver, pub. posthumous volume, Poetic Remains of the Late Allan Stewart (Paisley, 1838). Ref: Brown, II, 20-23; Jarndyce, item 1489. [S]
Stewart, Andrew (b. 1842), of Gallowgate, Glasgow, machine operator, journalist and poet. Ref: British Workman, c. 1893; Edwards, 15, 97-103. [S]
Stewart, Charles (b. 1813), of Bailleston, Glasgow, weaver, went to Canada in 1856, later librarian of Galt Mechanics’ Institute, pub. The Harp of Strathnaver: A Lay of the Scottish Highland Evictions, and other poems (Galt, Ontario, c. 1885). Ref: Edwards, 8, 305-11 and 11, 287-92. [S]
Stewart, James (1801-43), shoemaker of Perth, wrote verse ‘Sketches of Scottish Character’. Ref: Edwards, 1, 211-14; Douglas, 308; http://www.fife.50megs.com/james-stewart.htm. [S]
Stewart, James (b. 1841), of Johnstone, Dumfriesshire, farm worker, railwayman. Ref: Edwards, 6, 252-8. [S]
Stewart, John Joseph Smale (b. 1838), in Ireland where his soldier father was stationed, raised in Lochearnhead, brother of Sarah Jane Hyslop (qv), sailor, travelled in Bermuda and Nova Scotia, took part in the Russian war, later a farmer and gold prospector in Australia, finally a schoolmaster at Tamarara. Ref: Edwards, 7, 61-4. [I] [S]
Stewart, Robert (1806-85), of Paisley, handloom weaver, pub. some of his pieces in 1851. Ref: Brown, I, 389-91. [S]
Stewart, Thomas (b. 1840), ‘Rustic Rhymer’ of Larkhall, Lanarkshire, coalminer, pub. in local press, and a vol. of Doric Rhymes, some hamely Rhymes (Larkhall: William Burns, 1875). Ref: Murdoch, 362-5. [S]
Stewart, Thomas (b. 1859), of Monboy, Brechin, farmboy, grocer. Ref: Edwards, 8, 188-92. [S]
Stewart, William (b. 1835), of Aberlour, shoemaker, shopkeeper. Ref: Edwards, 12, 89-94 (Edwards’ index, vol. 16, gives a death date as 1848, clearly in error). [S]
Stewart, William (b. 1867), of Waterside, Lochlee, farmworker. Ref: Edwards, 10, 139-41. [S]
Stibbons, Frederick (b, 1872), of North Norfolk, farmworker nfrom age 11, later groom, handyman, assistant miller/mechant, gardener, yachting agent, insurance agent, milk-seller, oil and petrol rep, painter and decorator, golf instructor and caddie; pub. The Poems of a Norfolk Ploughman (1902); Norfolk’s ‘Caddie’ Poet. His Autobiography, Impressions, and some of his Verse (Holt, 1923); Life and Love in Arcadie (1929); In the King’s Country (1931). Ref: Burnett et al (1984), 198-9 (no, 666). [OP]
Still, Peter (1814-48), of Longside, Aberdeenshire, cattle herder, father of Peter Still (qv, 1835-69), poet, pub. Cottar’s Sunday and Other Poems. Ref: Edwards, 3, 305-8; Shanks, 153-4. [S]
? Still, Peter (1835-69), poet, son of Peter Still (qv, 1814-48) the cattle-herder poet. Ref: Edwards, 1, 173 and 16, [lix]. [S]
Story or Storey, Robert (1795-1860), of Wark, Northumberland, worked as gardener, shepherd and schoolteacher, lived in Gargrave, Yorkshire, made the acquaintance of John Nicholson. Pub. Craven Blossoms (Skipton, 1826, Johnson, item 872); The magic fountain, with other poems (London, 1829); The Outlaw, a drama in five acts (London, 1839); Songs and lyrical poems (Liverpool, 1837); Love and Literature: Being the Reminiscences, Literary Opinions and Fugitive Pieces of a Poet in Humble Life (London, 1842), Poetical Works of Robert Story (London, 1857), includes autobiographical preface, The lyrical and other minor poems of Robert Story, with a sketch of his life and writings by John James (London and Bradford, 1861). Contributed to The Festive Wreath (1842). ‘Mute is the Lyre of Ebor’ (1842) is printed in Holroyd, described as a memorial poem to his fellow wool-sorter John Nicholson (qv); if so and it is correctly dated it is premature as Nicholson died in 1843. Patrick O’Sullivan has in recent years helped revived interest in Story by bringing his work into the Gargrave Autoharp Festival. Ref: ODNB; Newsam, 151-5; Holroyd, 32, 128, 197-8; Vicinus (1974), 14-179 passim; Burnett et al (1984), 300-1 (nos. 670-1); Maidment (1987), 144-5; Vincent, 97; Johnson, items 872-6; Vincent, 208; Crossan, 40n33; Reilly (2000), 442; Keegan (2008), 93-5; Sutton, 905.
? Stott, Benjamin, of Manchester, bookbinder and poet, Chartist, Oddfellow, educated to school level. Referred to in Alexander Wilson’s ‘The Poet’s Corner’, pub. ‘The Songs of the Millions’ in The Northern Star in 1842; Songs for the Millions and Other Poems (Middleton, 1843), ‘the emanations of fervent feeling...of an almost uneducated mind’, which includes a ‘Memoir’. Ref: Kovalev, 106-9; Scheckner, 305-8, 343; Schwab, 217; Vincent, 124n, 188; Burnett et al (1984), 301 (no. 672); Charles Cox, Catalogue 51 (2005), item 258. [C]
Stott, Margaret Watt, ‘Maggie’ (b. 1862), of Montrose, daughter of Mr. J. E. Watt; in early life received ‘a fair education,’ and afterwards worked as a domestic servant; m. William Stott in 1882, with whom she lived in Brechin until some years later he became a station agent in Newtonhall. Stott was described by Edwards as ‘employed in public works in her native town’; pub. Poetical Sketches of Scottish Life and Character. Her verses, all of which were religious, included ‘Waitin’ The Maiser,’ ‘The Auld Year,’ and ‘Only Trust Him’. Ref: Edwards, 10, 167-9; inf. Florence Boos. [F] [S]
? Stratton, Nicholas, a ‘rustic farmer’s son’ from Huntingdonshire, poet of humble origins, pub. Poems on Various Subjects (1824) which includes a poem on the death of Bloomfield, and the intro cites Bloomfield and Clare as influences. Ref: Crossan, 37; Powell, item 369; inf. Greg Crossan.
Straycock, James (d. c. 1830), sailor of Yarmouth, pub. The son of commerce, an original poem, in thirty-four cantoes [sic], written by a sailor. To which is added his grand ode on the death and funeral of the late Lord Nelson (London: More and Son, 1806). Ref: C. R. Johnson, cat. 49 (2006), item 54.
Struthers, John (1776-1853), of Longcalderwood, Lanarkshire, shoemaker poet, moved to Glasgow, corresponded with Joanna Baillie and Walter Scott, pub. Poems on various subjects (1801), Anticipation (1803), The Poor Man’s Sabbath (1804), The Peasant’s Death and other poems (1806), The Winter’s Day with other poems (Glasgow, 1811), Poems moral and religious (1814), The Plough and other poems (Glasgow, 1816), An essay on the state of the labouring poor (1816), The Harp of Caledonia (1819), The British Minstrel (1821), The History of Scotland (1827), The Poor Man’s Sabbath and Other Poems (1832), Dychmont: A Poem (Glasgow, 1836). Ref: ODNB, Glasgow Poets, 132-40; Wilson, I, 540-51; Winks, 314-15; Johnson, items 880-2; Sutton, 909 (letters). [S]
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