Fergusson: A Bi-Centenary Handsel: Seventeen Poems

by Robert Fergusson

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Robert Fergusson was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St. Andrews, Fergusson led a bohemian life in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish enlightenment. Many of his poems were printed from 1771 onwards in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine, and a collected works was first published early in 1773. Despite a short life, his career was highly influential, especially through its impact on Robert Burns. He wrote both in Scottish English and the Scots language, and it is his vivid and masterly writing in the latter leid for which he is principally acclaimed.