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THOMAS AIRD (1802-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 443 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:AIRD (1802-1876)  , Scottish poet, was See also:born at Bowden, See also:Roxburghshire, on the 28th of See also:August 1802 . He was educated at See also:Edinburgh University, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Carlyle and See also:James See also:Hogg, and he decided to devote himself to See also:literary See also:work . He published Martzoufle, a Tragedy, with other Poems (1826), a See also:volume of essays, and a See also:long narrative poem in several cantos, The See also:Captive of See also:Fez (1830) . For a See also:year he edited the Edinburgh Weekly See also:Journal, and for twenty-eight years the See also:Dumfriesshire and See also:Galloway See also:Herald . In 1848 he published a collected edition of his poems, which met with much favour . Carlyle said that he found in them " a healthy breath as of See also:mountain breezes." Among See also:Aird's other See also:friends were De Quincey, See also:Lockhart, See also:Stanley (afterwards See also:dean of See also:Westminster) and See also:Motherwell . He died at See also:Dumfries on the 25th of See also:April 1876 .

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