Poems on Several Occasions, by Michael Bruce

Poems on Several Occasions, by Michael Bruce is a collection of poetry attributed to Michael Bruce, a Scottish poet. The collection is notable due to a controversy involving poet John Logan, who edited and published the volume in 1770. Logan included poems, such as "Ode to the Cuckoo," in the collection, stating they were by different authors to "make up a miscellany." He later published an altered version of "Ode to the Cuckoo" as his own. Bruce, born in 1746, died young in 1767, and his reputation grew partly through sympathy for his early death and partly through this alleged literary theft.1