Robert Fergusson

Robert Fergusson ( born September 5, 1750 in Edinburgh, † October 16, 1774 ) was a Scottish poet.

Life

After attending high school in Edinburgh and Dundee, he studied at the University of St Andrews and then joined the staff in the Commissariat of Edinburgh. Through his since 1771, published in the magazine Weekly Magazine poems he achieved local notoriety. After a strong, influenced by the clergyman John Brown religious interest, he fell into a deep depression. After he fell from a staircase, he went mad and died in a public mental hospital.

Fergusson left 33 poems in Scots and fifty poems in English. His most famous poem Auld Reekie (1773 ) is about a day in the life of the city of Edinburgh, who was his authoritative place of work.

His other well-known poems include Elegy on the Death of Scots Music, his first published poem The Daft Days, Hallow Fair, To the Tron Kirk Bell, Leith Races, and the satirical The Rising of the session.

With his works influenced Fergusson both contemporary poets such as Robert Burns, a grave stone left in 1789 to build on Fergusson's final resting place, as well as the work of later poets such as Robert Garioch, who wrote a sonnet for the grave stone and he dedicated the poem The Muir.