James Beattie (poet)

James Beattie ( born October 25, 1735 in Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, Scotland; † August 18, 1803 in Aberdeen) was a Scottish philosopher and writer. Beattie's poem The Minstrel (1771 ) was one of the earliest works of English Romanticism. He was one of the representatives of the common-sense philosophy.

Works

  • Original Poems and Translations ( 1760)
  • The Judgement of Paris ( 1765 )
  • Poems on Several Subjects (1766)
  • An Essay on the Nature and immutability of Truth (1770 )
  • The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771 /2) two volumes
  • Essays on the nature and immutability of truth in opposition to sophistry and skepticism. On poetry and music As They affect, the laughter and ludicrous composition on at least. On the utility of classical learning (1776 )
  • Essays on Poetry ( 1778)
  • Scoticisms, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Designed to Correct Improprieties of Speech and Writing (1779 ); Poems on several occasions (1780 )
  • Dissertations Moral and Critical (1783 )
  • The Evidences of the Christian Religion Briefly and plainly Stated (1786 ) 2 vols.
  • The theory of language. Part I. Of the origin and general nature of speech. Part II Of universal grammer (1788 )
  • Elements of Moral Science (1790-1793) 2 vols
  • The Poetical Works of James Beattie ( 1831) ed. by A. Dyce
  • The poetical works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer (1868 ) ed. by Charles Cowden Clarke
  • James Beattie 's Day Book, 1773-1778 (1948 ) ed. by R. S. Walker
  • James Beattie 's Diary (1948 ) ed. by R. S. Walker
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