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LC Poet
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
<em>Poems on Several Occasions, by Michael Bruce </em>(1770, posthumous)
Anthology Appearances
<p>Crawford, Thomas, <em>Love, Labour and Liberty: The Eighteenth-Century Scottish Lyric</em> (Cheadle: Carcanet, 1976), nos. 59-60</p>
<p>Douglas, Sir George (ed), <em>Poems of the Scottish Minor Poets</em>, <em>from the age of Ramsay to David Gray</em> (London and New York: Walter Scott, [1891]), Canterbury Poets series, 57-8, 290-1</p>
<p><a title="Spenserians" href="http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/" target="_blank">Radcliffe, David Hill (ed.), <em>Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry, 1759-1830</em></a></p>
<p><a title="Google Books" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=svY_AAAAYAAJ" target="_blank">Wilson, James Grant (ed.). <em>The Poems and Poetry of Scotland from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume I </em>(London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, 1876)</a>, 294-306</p>
ODNB
<a title="Michael Bruce" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3745?docPos=3" target="_blank">"Michael Bruce," by D.R. Moore</a>
Pickering and Chatto Volumes
LC 2 (263-4)
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Michael Bruce
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2013-06-28
1760
male
precocious youth
Scottish
tragic youth
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LC Poet
First Name
Jean
Last Name
Adams
Authority Name
Jean Adams
Other Name
Jane
Active Decades
1730
Birth Date
1704
Death Date
1765
Gender
female
Nationality
Scottish
Industry
education
domestic work
Occupation
governess
maid
teacher
hawker
Birthplace
Greenock
Biography
shipmaster's granddaughter, mariner's daughter, governess and maid, teacher, later hawker, died in workhouse
Published Poetry Collections
<em>Miscellany Poems</em> (1734)
Anthology Appearances
<p>Fullard, Joyce (ed), <em>British Women Poets 1660-1800: An Anthology</em> (Troy, NY: The Whiston Publishing C, 1990), 157, 547</p>
<p><a title="archive.org" href="http://archive.org/details/harpofrenfrewshi00renf" target="_blank"><em>The Harp of Renfrewshire: A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical Pieces</em> (Paisley: Alex Gardner, 1972)</a>, xxii-xxvi</p>
<p>Lonsdale, Roger, <em>Eighteenth-Century Women Poets</em> (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, corrected softback edition, 1990), 141-5</p>
<p><a title="archive.org" href="http://archive.org/details/poetsofdumfriess00mill" target="_blank">Miller, Frank, <em>The Poets of Dumfriesshire</em> (Glasgow: James Maclehose & Son, 1910)</a>, 137-40</p>
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ODNB
"<a title=""Jean Adams," Karina Williamson" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/103" target="_blank">Jean Adams</a>," by Karina Williamson
Secondary Sources
<p>Davis, Gwenn, and Beverley A. Joyce (compilers), <em>Poetry by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers</em> (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1991), item 16</p>
<p>Bill Overton, <em>N&Q</em>, Dec 2004</p>
<p>Janet Todd (ed), <em>A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800</em> (London: Methuen, 1987; New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987)</p>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Jean Adams
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2013-05-23
1730
commerce
domestic work
education
female
Scottish
workhouse