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Rob Morris was born on August 31, 1818, in New York City. His father's name was Robert Peckham (1789–1825) and his mother was Charlotte Lavinia Shaw Peckham (1786–1837). Charlotte and Robert Peckham had five children. The first two, John Fales Peckham and Mary Shaw Peckham, died in infancy.
The Scottish painter John Faed produced a series of illustrations featuring scenes from the poem, some of which were subsequently engraved by William Miller. [4] Scenes from the poem also inspired paintings by David Wilkie [5] and William Kidd, [6] and William Allan's painting of Burns writing the poem was subsequently engraved by John Burnet. [7]
Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 [1] as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates.
Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 17 October 1774) 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 .
His poems have been published in a number of journals, including Poetry, The Atlantic, Barrow Street, and The New Yorker. [2] In 2003 and 2006 he had poems published in Best American Poetry , and in 2013, his poem "Religion" appeared in The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition , selected by Robert Pinsky .
Robert Henryson (Middle Scots: Robert Henrysoun) was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots makars , he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities.
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket is an influential poem by Robert Lowell. It was first published in 1946 in his collection Lord Weary's Castle. The poem is written in an irregular combination of pentameter and trimeter and divided into seven sections. It is dedicated to Lowell's cousin, "Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea."
Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". [2] Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty.