Robert Fergusson
Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 16 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. Many of his extant 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
Scottish English and the
Scots language, and it is his vivid and masterly writing in the latter ''
leid'' for which he is principally acclaimed.
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