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See also:BRUCE, See also:MICHAEL (1746-1767) , Scottish poet, was See also:born at Kinnesswood in the See also:parish of Portmoak, Kinross-See also:shire, on the 27th of See also:March 1746. His See also:father, See also:Alexander Bruce, was a See also:weaver, and a See also:man of exceptional ability. Michael was taught to read before he was four years old, and one of his favourite books was a copy of See also:Sir See also:David See also:Lyndsay's See also:works. He was See also:early sent to school, but his attendance was often interrupted. He had frequently to See also:herd See also:cattle on the See also:Lomond Hills in summer, and this early companionship with nature greatly influenced his poetic See also:genius. He was a delicate See also:child, and See also:grew up contemplative, devotional and humorous, the pet of his See also:family and his See also:friends. His parents gave him an See also:education See also:superior to their position; he studied Latin and See also:Greek, and at fifteen, when his school education was completed, a small See also:legacy See also:left to his See also:mother, with some additions from kindly neighbours, provided means to send Michael to See also:Edinburgh University, which he attended during the four See also:winter sessions 1762-1765. In 1765 he taught during the summer months at Gairney See also:Bridge, receiving about 1 r a See also:year in fees and See also:free See also:board in one or other of the homes of his pupils. He became a divinity student at Kinross of a Scottish See also:sect known as the Burghers, and in the first summer. (1766) of his divinity course accepted the See also:charge of a new school at See also:Forest See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, near See also:Clackmannan, where he led a See also:melancholy See also:life. Poverty, disease and want of companions depressed his See also:spirits, but there he wrote "Lochleven," a poem inspired by the memories of his childhood. He had before been threatened with See also:consumption, and now became seriously See also:ill. During the winter he returned on See also:foot to his father's See also:house, where he wrote his last and finest poem, "See also:Elegy written in See also:Spring," and died on the 5th of See also:July 1767.
As a poet his reputation has been spread, first, through sympathy for his early See also:death; and secondly, through the alleged See also:theft by See also:John See also:Logan (q.v.) of several of his poems. Logan, who had been a See also:fellow-student of Bruce, obtained Bruce's See also:MSS. from his father, shortly after the poet's death. For the letters, poems, &c., that he allowed to pass out of his hands, Alexander Bruce took no See also:receipt, nor did he keep any See also:list of the titles. Logan edited in 1770 Poems on Several Occasions, by Michael Bruce, in which the ""See also:Ode to the See also:Cuckoo " appeared. In the See also:preface he stated that " to make up a See also:miscellany, some poems written by different authors are inserted." In a collection of his own poems in 1781, Logan printed the " Ode to the Cuckoo " as his own; of this the friends of Bruce were aware, but did not See also:challenge its See also:appropriation publicly. In a MS. Pious Memorials of Portmoak, See also:drawn up by Bruce's friend, David See also:Pearson, Bruce's authorship of the " Ode to the Cuckoo " is emphatically asserted. This See also:book was in the See also:possession of the See also:Birrell family, and John Birrell, another friend of the poet, adds a testimony to the same effect. Pearson and Birrell also wrote to Dr See also:Robert See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson while he was See also:publishing his See also:British Poets, pointing out Bruce's claims. Their
communications were used by Anderson in the " Life " prefixed to Logan's works in the British Poets (vol. ii. p. 1029). The See also:volume of 1770 had struck Bruce's friends as being incomplete, and his father missed his son's " See also:Gospel Sonnets," which are supposed by the partisans of Bruce against Logan to have been the See also:hymns printed in the 1781 edition of Logan's poems. Logan tried to prevent by See also:law the reprinting of Bruce's poems (see See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Mackenzie's Life of Michael Bruce, 1905, See also:chap. xii.), but the book was printed in 1782, 1784, 1796 and 1807. Dr See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William M'Kelvie revived Bruce's claims in Lochleven and Other Poems, by Michael Bruce, with a Life of the Author from See also:Original See also:Sources (1837). Logan's authorship rests on the publication of the poems under his own name, and his reputation as author during his lifetime. His failure to produce the " poem book " of Bruce entrusted to him, and the fact that no copy of the " Ode to the Cuckoo " in his See also:handwriting was known to exist during Bruce's lifetime, make it difficult to relieve him of the charge of See also:plagiarism. Prof. John See also:Veitch, in The Feeling for Nature in Scottish See also:Poetry (1887, vol. ii. pp. 89-91), points out that the See also:stanza known to be Logan's addition to this ode is out of keeping with the See also:rest of the poem, and is in the manner of Logan's established compositions, in which there is nothing to suggest the See also:direct simplicity of the little poem on the cuckoo.
End of Article: BRUCE, MICHAEL (1746-1767)
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