Robert blair biography grave pdf

Scottish poet

Rev Robert Blair (17 April 1699 – 4 February 1746) was a Scottishpoet. His fame rests upon his poem The Grave, which in a later printing was illustrated by William Blake.

grave- A POEM. By ROBERT BLAIR. 7HE FOURTEENTH EDITION.

Biography

He was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Blair, one of the king's chaplains, and was born at Edinburgh. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and in the Netherlands, and in 1731 was appointed minister of Athelstaneford in East Lothian. In 1738, he married Isabella, daughter of Professor William Law, with whom he had six children.

His family's wealth gave him leisure for his favourite pursuits: gardening and the study of English poets.

Blair published only three poems. One was a commemoration of his father-in-law and another was a translation. His reputation rests entirely on his third work, The Grave (1743), which is a poem written in blank verse on the subject of death and the graveyard.

Robert N. Essick and Morton D. Paley, Robert Blair’s The ...

It is much less conventional than its gloomy title might The grave, a poem. Illustrated by twelve etchings executed by ... DAJYC