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Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 17 October 1774) was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson led a bohemian life in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Sep 1, 2024 · Robert Fergusson (born Sept. 5, 1750, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Oct. 16, 1774, Edinburgh) was a Scottish poet who was one of the leading figures of the 18th-century revival of Scots vernacular writing and the chief forerunner of Robert Burns.
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Robert Fergusson was a Scottish poet whose work stands as a vital link between the Augustan Age of Poetry and the Romantic era that followed. Fergusson wrote primarily in Scots, capturing the vibrancy and dynamism of Edinburgh life in his verse.
Robert Fergusson. 1750 - 1774. Portrait by Alexander Runciman, c. 1772. POEMS BIBLIOGRAPHY CRITICISM. Robert Burns was moved to commission a headstone in Canongate Kirkyard to Fergusson, thirteen years after he had been buried there in an unmarked grave, describing the poet as ‘my elder brother in misfortune; by far my elder brother in the ...
Fergusson stands as one of Scotland’s most original, spirited and scholarly poets. His ability to write extraordinarily powerfully in Scots unites with his unique literary talent to...
‘The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies’ is a two-year research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which runs from October 2023 until October 2025. Robert Fergusson (1750-74) is a key poet of the Scottish eighteenth century.
Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 17 October 1774) had a short life, but his textual, medical, linguistic and cultural legacies were significant, to the extent that Robert Burns (1759 – 1796), often considered Scotland’s national poet, regarded Fergusson as his ‘elder brother in the muse’.
