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MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS (1735-1788)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 380 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICKLE, See also:WILLIAM See also:JULIUS (1735-1788) , Scottish poet, son of the See also:minister of See also:Langholm, See also:Dumfries-See also:shire, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:September 1735. He was educated at the See also:Edinburgh ii.gh school, and in his fifteenth See also:year entered business as abrewer. His See also:father See also:purchased the business, and on his See also:death William Mickle became the owner; but he neglected his affairs, devoting his See also:time to literature, and before See also:long became bankrupt. In 1763 he went to See also:London, where in 1765 he published " a poem in the manner of See also:Spenser " called the Concubine (after-wards Syr Marlyn); was appointed corrector to the See also:Clarendon See also:Press, and translated the Lusiad of See also:Camoens into heroic couplets (specimen published 1771, whole See also:work, 1775). So See also:great was the repute of this See also:translation that when Mickle—appointed secretary to See also:Commodore See also:Johnstone—visited See also:Lisbon in 1779, the See also:king of See also:Portugal gave him a public reception. On his return to London he was appointed one of the agents responsible for the See also:distribution of See also:prize-See also:money, and this employment, in addition to the sums brought him by his translation of the Lusiad, placed him in comfortable circumstances. It has been suggested that the Scottish poem " There's nae See also:luck aboot the hoose " was Mickle's. It is more likely, however, that See also:Jean See also:Adams was the author. See also:Scott read and admired Mickle's poems in his youth, and founded See also:Kenilworth on his ballad of Cumnor See also:Hall, which appeared in See also:Thomas See also:Evans's Old See also:Ballads . . . with some of See also:Modern Date (1784).

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