See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

MICHAEL See also:

• BRUCE
• BRUCE, ALEXANDER BALMAIN (1831-1899)
• BRUCE, JAMES (1930-1794)
• MICHAEL BRUCE (1746-1767)

BRUCE (1746-1767)  , Scottish poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Kinnesswood in the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish of Portmoak, Kinross-See also:

• SHIRE

shire, on the 27th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1746 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• BRUCE
• BRUCE, ALEXANDER BALMAIN (1831-1899)
• BRUCE, JAMES (1930-1794)
• BRUCE, MICHAEL (1746-1767)

Bruce, was a See also:

• WEAVER, JAMES BAIRD (1833- )

weaver, and a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of exceptional ability . See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

Michael was taught to read before he was four years old, and one of his favourite books was a copy of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David See also:

• LYNDSAY, SIR DAVID (c. 1490-c. 1555)

Lyndsay's See also:

• WORKS

works . He was See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early sent to school, but his attendance was often interrupted . He had frequently to See also:

• HERD (a word common to Teutonic languages; the O. Eng. form was heord; cf. Ger. Herde, Swed. and Dan. hjord; the Sans. ca'rdhas, which shows the pre-Teutonic form, means a troop)

herd See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle on the See also:

• LOMOND, LOCH

Lomond Hills in summer, and this early companionship with nature greatly influenced his poetic See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius . He was a delicate See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child, and See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up contemplative, devotional and humorous, the pet of his See also:

• FAMILY

family and his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends . His parents gave him an See also:

• EDUCATION

education See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior to their position; he studied Latin and See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek, and at fifteen, when his school education was completed, a small See also:

• LEGACY (Lat. legatum)

legacy See also:

• LEFT

left to his See also:

• MOTHER

mother, with some additions from kindly neighbours, provided means to send Michael to See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh University, which he attended during the four See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter sessions 1762-1765 . In 1765 he taught during the summer months at Gairney See also:

• BRIDGE

Bridge, receiving about 1 r a See also:

• YEAR

year in fees and See also:

• FREE

free See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board in one or other of the homes of his pupils . He became a divinity student at Kinross of a Scottish See also:

• SECT

sect known as the Burghers, and in the first summer . (1766) of his divinity course accepted the See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of a new school at See also:

• FOREST

Forest See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

Hill, near See also:

• CLACKMANNAN

Clackmannan, where he led a See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy See also:

• LIFE

life . Poverty, disease and want of companions depressed his See also:

• SPIRITS

spirits, but there he wrote "Lochleven," a poem inspired by the memories of his childhood . He had before been threatened with See also:

• CONSUMPTION (Lat. consumere)

consumption, and now became seriously See also:

• ILL

ill .

During the winter he returned on See also:

• FOOT

foot to his father's See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house, where he wrote his last and finest poem, "See also:

• ELEGY

Elegy written in See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Spring," and died on the 5th of See also:

• JULY

July 1767 . As a poet his reputation has been spread, first, through sympathy for his early See also:

• DEATH

death; and secondly, through the alleged See also:

• THEFT

theft by See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• LOGAN
• LOGAN, JOHN (1748-1788)
• LOGAN, JOHN (c. 1725-1780)
• LOGAN, JOHN ALEXANDER (1826-1886)
• LOGAN, SIR WILLIAM EDMOND (1798-1875)

Logan (q.v.) of several of his poems . Logan, who had been a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-student of Bruce, obtained Bruce's See also:

• MSS

MSS. from his father, shortly after the poet's death . For the letters, poems, &c., that he allowed to pass out of his hands, Alexander Bruce took no See also:

• RECEIPT (M.E. receite, derived through Fr. from Lat. recepta, participle of recipere, to receive)

receipt, nor did he keep any See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of the titles . Logan edited in 1770 Poems on Several Occasions, by Michael Bruce, in which the ""See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

Ode to the See also:

• CUCKOO

Cuckoo " appeared . In the See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface he stated that " to make up a See also:

• MISCELLANY

miscellany, some poems written by different authors are inserted." In a collection of his own poems in 1781, Logan printed the " Ode to the Cuckoo " as his own; of this the friends of Bruce were aware, but did not See also:

• CHALLENGE (O. Fr. chalonge, calenge, &c., from Lat. calumnia, originally meaning trickery, from calvi, to deceive, hence a false accusation, a " calumny ")

challenge its See also:

• APPROPRIATION (from Lat. appropriare, to set aside)

appropriation publicly . In a MS . Pious Memorials of Portmoak, See also:

• DRAWN

drawn up by Bruce's friend, David See also:

• PEARSON, CHARLES HENRY (1830-1894)
• PEARSON, JOHN (1612-1686)
• PEARSON, JOHN LOUGHBOROUGH (1817-1897)

Pearson, Bruce's authorship of the " Ode to the Cuckoo " is emphatically asserted . This See also:

• BOOK

book was in the See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of the See also:

• BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE (1850- )

Birrell family, and John Birrell, another friend of the poet, adds a testimony to the same effect . Pearson and Birrell also wrote to Dr See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• ANDERSON
• ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
• ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
• ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
• ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
• ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
• ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
• ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
• ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
• ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
• ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)

Anderson while he was See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing his See also:

• BRITISH

British Poets, pointing out Bruce's claims . Their communications were used by Anderson in the " Life " prefixed to Logan's works in the British Poets (vol. ii. p . 1029) .

The See also:

• VOLUME

volume of 1770 had struck Bruce's friends as being incomplete, and his father missed his son's " See also:

• GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel Sonnets," which are supposed by the partisans of Bruce against Logan to have been the See also:

• HYMNS

hymns printed in the 1781 edition of Logan's poems . Logan tried to prevent by See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law the reprinting of Bruce's poems (see See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• MACKENZIE
• MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER (1822-1892)
• MACKENZIE, HENRY (1745-1831)
• MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER (c. 1755-1820)
• MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL (1847— )
• MACKENZIE, SIR GEORGE (1636-1691)
• MACKENZIE, SIR MORELL (1837-1892)
• MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (1795-1861)

Mackenzie's Life of Michael Bruce, 1905, See also:

• CHAP

chap. xii.), but the book was printed in 1782, 1784, 1796 and 1807 . Dr See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William M'Kelvie revived Bruce's claims in Lochleven and Other Poems, by Michael Bruce, with a Life of the Author from See also:

• ORIGINAL

Original See also:

• SOURCES

Sources (1837) . Logan's authorship rests on the publication of the poems under his own name, and his reputation as author during his lifetime . His failure to produce the " poem book " of Bruce entrusted to him, and the fact that no copy of the " Ode to the Cuckoo " in his See also:

• HANDWRITING

handwriting was known to exist during Bruce's lifetime, make it difficult to relieve him of the charge of See also:

• PLAGIARISM

plagiarism . Prof . John See also:

• VEITCH, JOHN (1829-1894)

Veitch, in The Feeling for Nature in Scottish See also:

• POETRY

Poetry (1887, vol. ii. pp . 89-91), points out that the See also:

• STANZA (Low Lat. stantia, Ital. stantia or stanza)

stanza known to be Logan's addition to this ode is out of keeping with the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the poem, and is in the manner of Logan's established compositions, in which there is nothing to suggest the See also:

• DIRECT

direct simplicity of the little poem on the cuckoo .