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NICOLL, ROBERT (1814-1837)

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NICOLL, See also:ROBERT (1814-1837) , Scottish poet, was See also:born on the 7th of See also:January, 1814, at the See also:farm of Little Tullybeltane, in the See also:parish of Auchtergaven, See also:Perthshire. When Robert was five years old his See also:father was reduced to poverty. He became a See also:day-labourer, and was only able to give his son a very slight See also:education. At sixteen the boy was apprenticed to a See also:grocer and See also:wine-See also:merchant at See also:Perth. In 1833 he began to contribute to See also:Johnstone's See also:Magazine (afterwards See also:Tait's Magazine), and in the next See also:year his See also:apprenticeship was cancelled. He visited See also:Edinburgh, and was kindly received there, but obtained no employment. He opened a circulating library at See also:Dundee, but in 1836 he became editor of the See also:Leeds Times. He held pronounced See also:Radical opinions, and overtaxed his slender See also:physical resources in electioneering See also:work for See also:Sir See also:William See also:Molesworth in the summer of 1837. He was obliged to resign his editorship, and died at the See also:house of his friend William Tait, at Trinity, near Edinburgh, on the 7th of See also:December 1837, in his twenty-See also:fourth year. He had published a See also:volume of Poems in 1835; and in 1844 appeared a further volume, Poems and Lyrics, with an See also:anonymous memoir of the author by Mrs C. I. Johnstone.

The best of his lyrics are those written in the Scottish See also:

dialect. They are See also:simple in feeling and expression, genuine folk-songs. An eloquent appreciation of his See also:character and his See also:poetry was included in See also:Charles See also:Kingsley's See also:article on " See also:Burns and his School " in the See also:North See also:British See also:Review for See also:November 1851. See also P. R. See also:Drummond, See also:Life of Robert Nicoll, Poet (1884).

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