INDEX OF AUTHORS

AKENSIDE, MARK (1721-1770), poet and physician, born at New-
castle-on-Tyne, and descended from Northumbrian Presby-
terians of the lower middle class; was educated in the
free school of his native town, and at a private Academy
kept by a dissenting minister by name of Wilson, and
afterwards studied for the ministry in Edinburgh. In Jan-
uary, 1744, appeared the Pleasures of the Imagination.
The same year Akenside left England for Leyden, Hol-
land, where he took his degree of Doctor of Physic after
completing the necessary studies within a month.
He prac
tised medicine at North End, Hampstead, between 1745 and
1747, but without much success. In January, 1753, he
was admitted by mandamus to a doctor's degree at Cam-
bridge, and was in the same year elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society; in April, 1754, he was admitted a Fellow
of the College of Physicians, and in September of the fol
lowing year was elected fourth censor of the College, and
delivered the Gulstonian Lectures. In 1756, he read the
Croonian Lectures before the same College. Besides the
Pleasures of the Imagination, of which there exists a pos-
thumous version, he wrote a number of scattering odes and
epistles. He is said to have died in the bed in which
Milton expired.

If Rightly Tuneful Bards Decide.

The Complaint..

To the Evening Star.

AUSTIN, ADAM (1726?-1774), was a medical practitioner of
note in Edinburgh in the third quarter of the eighteenth
century. The single poem by which his memory has been
kept alive, was inspired by Miss Jean Drummond, the
young lady of his heart who forsook him to marry James,
Duke of Athole, in 1747.

For Lack of Gold..

BAILLIE, LADY GRISELL (1665-1746), was born at Redbracs Cas-
tle, Berwickshire, the daughter of Sir Patrick Hume (or
Home) who was concerned in the intrigues against the
succession of the Catholic Duke of York who afterwards
became James VII. When James ascended the throne
Hume with his family escaped to Utrecht in Holland where
he assumed the name of "Dr. Wallace." With the land-
ing of the Prince of Orange the exiles, among whom was
George Baillie of Jerviswood to whom Grisell Hume was
greatly attached, returned home. In 1692, she was mar-

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ried to Baillie of Jerviswood. During the exile in Holland
Grisell kept a manuscript of the songs she composed, which
was at one time in the possession of her daughter, Lady
Murray of Stanhope. Only the two verses here printed

are now extant.

The Ewe-Buchtin's Bonnie....

Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee..

BAILLIE, JOANNA (1762-1851), dramatist and poet, was born at
the manse of Bothwell, Lanarkshire, and was descended
from an ancient Scottish family. She was the daughter of
Dr. Baillie, professor of Divinity in the University of Glas-
gow. In 1790, she published in London a small volume of
miscellaneous poems entitled Fugitive Verses. The first play
she wrote, Arnold, does not survive. In 1798, she pub-
lished the first volume of Plays on the Passions, entitled
"A Series of Plays, in which it is attempted to delineate
the stronger passions of the mind, each passion being the
subject of a tragedy and a comedy." In 1802, she issued
a second volume. She was also the author of numerous
volumes of plays and poems.

Song (They who may tell love's wistful tale)..

The Maid of Llanwellyn..

Saw Ye Johnny Comin'?.

Woo'd and Married and A'

To a Kitten..

The Outlaw's Song.

Poverty Parts Gude Companie..

BARBAULD, ANNA LAETITIA (1743-1825), was born at Kibworth,
Leicestershire. At fifteen years old she became one of
the tutors in the newly established academy of Warring-
ton. In 1773, she published her first volume of verse; this
was followed by a number of works well-known in their
day. She also edited fifty volumes of the best English
novelists, to which she prefixed an essay of length on the
Origin and Progress of Novel Writing.
Life

BEATTIE, JAMES (1735-1803), was born in the village of Lau-
rencekirk in Kincardineshire, of humble parentage. At
fourteen he entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, with the
intention of studying for the ministry. In 1752, he became
parish schoolmaster at Fordoun, at the foot of the Gram-
pians, and in 1760, was offered the chair of Natural Phi-
losophy in Marischal College. In 1761, he published,
Original Poems and Translations, and in 1766, appeared
a much revised edition with omissions and additions which
won him considerable fame in both Scotland and England.
In 1771, appeared his best-known work, The Minstrel.
Epitaph, Intended for Himself..

BISHOP, SAMUEL (1731-1795), was born in London, and edu-
cated at St. John's College, Oxford. He was ordained to
the curacy of Headley in Surrey, and afterwards received
the preferments of Ditton in Kent, and St. Martin Out-
wich in London. In 1798, three years after his death, the

Rev. Thomas Clare collected and printed Sermons Chiefly
upon Practical Subjects by the Rev. Samuel Bishop, and
two volumes of Poetical Works.
Fati Valet Hora Benigni..
The Touch Stone...

The Second Marriage..

BLAIR, ROBERT (1699-1746), was born in Edinburgh, eldest son
of the Rev. David Blair a minister of the old church in
Edinburgh and one of the chaplains to the king. He was
educated at Edinburgh University, and travelled for a
time on the continent, afterwards becoming minister of
Athelstaneford in Haddingtonshire in 1731. At twenty-one
he contributed to the Edinburgh Miscellany. In 1743, The
Grave was published - as unlike the light verses of his
contemporaries as the toll of a funeral bell to the merry
gill bells' of St. Giles." Among the many editions of the
poem published to the beginning of the nineteenth century,
that illustrated by William Blake, and issued by Cromek
in 1808, remains the most notable.
The Grave...

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BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827), poet, artist and seer, was born
in London, the son of a linen draper. At thirteen he was
apprenticed to Basire the engraver with whom he remained
seven years, the last five of which much of his time was
spent in making drawings of Gothic monuments, chiefly
in Westminster Abbey. For a short time after leaving
the engraver, Blake studied at the Antique School at the
newly founded Royal Academy. In his twentieth year he
began engraving and drawing upon his own account, and
made the acquaintance of Flaxman and Fuseli who re-
mained his life-long friends. In 1782, he married Cather-
ine Boucher who became to him "the best wife a man of
genius ever had." In 1783, Blake issued his first work,
the Poetical Sketches, which was published at the expense
of Flaxman and the Rev. Henry Matthew. In 1784, Blake
is known to have composed an extravaganza named from
the opening phrase, An Island in the Moon, which Mr. Ed-
win J. Ellis has printed for the first time in full in his Real
Blake: A Portrait Biography, 1907. The same year of the
Extravaganza, Blake became a print-seller at 27 Broad
Street. In 1789, he issued his Songs of Innocence, the
first of his books to be produced by the "method of his
invention which he described as illuminated printing.'"
Then followed from his press the Book of Thel, dated the
same year: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790. The
Visions of the Daughters of Albion, America, Europe, The
Gates of Paradise, The Book of Urizen, the first series of
Prophetic Books, 1793: The Songs of Experience, 1794;
The Song of Los, Ahania, 1795; Jerusalem and Milton,
1804.