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Robert Fergusson: Scotia's Bard
’s Bard The often overlooked life of Robert Fergusson, Edinburgh’s unofficial poet laureate and Scotland’s voice. On 17 October 1774 the Scots poet Robert Fergusson died.
The often overlooked life of Robert Fergusson, Edinburgh’s unofficial poet laureate and Scotland’s voice. Fergusson’s achievements are often overshadowed by his early death: at 24, following a brain injury and a spell in Edinburgh’s Bedlam asylum. Despite writing for only six years, he was impressively prolific, with an output of over 100 poems written in both Scots and English, more than 80 of which were published in his lifetime.
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