Michael Bruce

Title

Michael Bruce

Date

2013-06-28

First Name

Michael

Last Name

Bruce

Authority Name

Michael 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

Wilson, James Grant (ed.). The Poems and Poetry of Scotland from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume I (London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, 1876), 294-306

Pickering and Chatto Volumes

LC 2 (263-4)