Carolina Oliphant, later Lady Nairne, was born on 16 August 1766 at Gask House in Perthshire, into a family whose private memories were inseparable from one of Scotland’s most public historical wounds. She died on 26 October 1845, also at Gask, after a life of seventy-nine years in which she became one of the most accomplished and widely loved writers of Scottish song. For much of that life, however, the public did n…
“There is so much high talent, truth, and simplicity, that when I put it all together, it left the impression of sublimity on my mind.”
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Political Poets, Scottish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
Robert Fergusson was born in Edinburgh on 5 September 1750 and died there on 16 October 1774, not yet twenty-five years old. His life was painfully short, financially unsettled, and shadowed at its end by severe mental illness, yet the poetry written during his few active years gave him a permanent place in Scottish literature. He was the most vivid poetic observer of eighteenth-century Edinburgh before Robert Burns,…
Neighbourhood:
Georgian Poets, Light Verse Poets, Scottish Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Longing, Spirituality
