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ALEXANDER ROSS (1699-1784)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 739 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:ROSS (1699-1784)  , Scottish poet, See also:wad See also:born on the 13th of See also:April 1699 at Kincardine-O'Neil, See also:Aberdeenshire . He was educated at Marischal See also:College, See also:Aberdeen, and became See also:tutor to the See also:children of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Forbes of Craigievar . He became in 1732 schoolmaster of Lochlee, See also:Angus, where the See also:rest of his See also:life was spent . He had See also:long been in the See also:habit of See also:writing See also:verse for his own amusement, when in 1768 he published, at the See also:suggestion of See also:James See also:Beattie, The Fortunate Shepherdess . . . to which is (sic) added a few songs . This is a See also:pastoral narrative poem, written in obvious See also:imitation of See also:Allan See also:Ramsay's See also:Gentle Shepherd . Its affectations are chiefly on the See also:surface . The background of shepherd life as known to See also:Ross, and the rather sordid _motives of the characters, despite their high-See also:sounding names of Helenore, Rosalind, &c., are depicted with uncompromising truth . He died at Lochlee, and was buried on the 26th of May 1784 . See Helenore, or the Fortunate Shepherdess, edited by See also:John Longmuir (1866); also H . See also:Walker, Three Centuries of Scottish Literature (1893), ii . 28–34 .

The bulk of Ross's writings remain in MS .

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