Title
Michael Bruce
Date
2013-06-28
First Name
Michael
Last Name
Bruce
Active Decades
1760
Birth Date
1746
Death Date
1767
Gender
male
Nationality
Scottish
Biography
Scottish son of a weaver; "boy genius" who died of consumption at the age of 20. His verse was reissued several times. Published "Ode to the Cuckoo," "Lochleven," (1766), and "Ode to Spring" (1767), a self-elegy.
Published Poetry Collections
Poems on Several Occasions, by Michael Bruce (1770, posthumous)
Anthology Appearances
Crawford, Thomas, Love, Labour and Liberty: The Eighteenth-Century Scottish Lyric (Cheadle: Carcanet, 1976), nos. 59-60
Douglas, Sir George (ed), Poems of the Scottish Minor Poets, from the age of Ramsay to David Gray (London and New York: Walter Scott, [1891]), Canterbury Poets series, 57-8, 290-1
Radcliffe, David Hill (ed.), Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry, 1759-1830
Pickering and Chatto Volumes
LC 2 (263-4)