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Robert Fergusson (Edimburgo, 5 de septiembre de 1750 - 16 de octubre de 1774), poeta escocés. Su obra está escrita tanto en un puro inglés como en lengua escocesa, pero son más apreciados los poemas elaborados en esta última, que sirvieron de inspiración para el también poeta escocés Robert Burns.
Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 16 October 1774) was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson led a bohemian life in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Robert Fergusson ( Edimburgo, 5 de septiembre de 1750 - 16 de octubre de 1774), poeta escocés. Robert Fergusson. Su obra está escrita tanto en un puro inglés como en lengua escocesa, pero son más apreciados los poemas elaborados en esta última, que sirvieron de inspiración para el también poeta escocés Robert Burns.
Robert Fergusson (born Sept. 5, 1750, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Oct. 16, 1774, Edinburgh) was a Scottish poet who was one of the leading figures of the 18th-century revival of Scots vernacular writing and the chief forerunner of Robert Burns.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Edinburgh’s ‘laureate’ Robert Fergusson, who studied at St Andrews University in the 1760s under the Professor of Natural Philosophy, William Wilkie, is probably the first significant poet in the English speaking world to study English literary texts as part of his university curriculum.
Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 17 October 1774) had a short life, but his textual, medical, linguistic and cultural legacies were significant, to the extent that Robert Burns (1759 – 1796), often considered Scotland’s national poet, regarded Fergusson as his ‘elder brother in the muse’.
Robert Fergusson. 1750 - 1774. Portrait by Alexander Runciman, c. 1772. POEMS BIBLIOGRAPHY CRITICISM. Robert Burns was moved to commission a headstone in Canongate Kirkyard to Fergusson, thirteen years after he had been buried there in an unmarked grave, describing the poet as ‘my elder brother in misfortune; by far my elder brother in the muse’.
