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Born June 21, 1813 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died August 4, 1865 (aged 52) • Elgin • Scotland
Notable Works “Bon Gaultier Ballads” • “Firmilian, or the Student of Badajoz, a Spasmodic Tragedy” • “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers” • “Norman Sinclair”
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
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William Dunbar
Scottish poet
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet
Macpherson, James
James Macpherson
Scottish poet
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Edwin Muir
Scottish writer
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
Frere, John Hookham
John Hookham Frere
English diplomat and writer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
Beattie, detail of an engraving by William Ridley after a portrait by an unknown artist
James Beattie
Scottish poet
MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid
Scottish poet
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Robert Henryson
Scottish author
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Harry The Minstrel
Scottish writer
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Sir Richard Maitland, Lord Lethington
Scottish poet
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Andrew Lang
British scholar
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James Thomson
Scottish poet [1700–1748]

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