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TANNAHILL, ROBERT (1774-181o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TANNAHILL, See also:ROBERT (1774-181o) , Scottish See also:song-writer, son of a See also:Paisley See also:silk-See also:weaver, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:June 1774. He was apprenticed to his See also:father's See also:trade at the See also:age of twelve, and, inspired by the See also:poetry of Robert See also:Burns, he wrote verses as he drove the See also:shuttle to and fro, with shelf and See also:ink-See also:bottle rigged up on his See also:loom-See also:post. He was shy and reserved, of small and delicate physique, and took little See also:part in the social See also:life of the See also:town. The steady routine of his trade was broken only by occasional excursions to See also:Glasgow and the See also:land of Burns, and a See also:year's trial of See also:work at See also:Bolton. He began in 1805 to contribute verses to Glasgow and Paisley See also:periodicals, and published an edition of his poems by subscription in 1807. Three years later, on the 17th of May 181o, the life of the quiet, See also:gentle, diffident and despondent poet was brought by his own See also:act to a tragic end. Tannahill's claims to remembrance See also:rest upon See also:half a dozen songs, full of an exquisite feeling for nature, and so happily set to See also:music that they have retained their popularity. " Loudon's Bonnie See also:Woods and Braes," " Jessie, the See also:Flower o' See also:Dunblane," and " Gloomy See also:Winter's Noo See also:Alva " are the best of them. " Jessie, the Flower o'• Dunblane " and " The Farewell " tell the See also:story of the poet's own unhappy love for See also:Janet See also:Tennant. Tannahill's See also:centenary was celebrated at Paisley in 1874. See edition by D. Semple (1876) for details of his life.

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