Robert Blair

(1699-1749)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Blair, Robert, 1699-1746 NRA: Blair, Robert (1699-1746) Church of Scotland minister poet DNB: Blair, Robert (1699-1746), poet LBT ID: RoBlair1749 VIAF ID: 35250279 LOC ID: n82126678	B/BAP: 1699 DIED: 1749-02-04
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Scottish poet, author of a long-popular poem in blank verse, The Grave (1743).
REFERENCES TO Robert Blair: Walter Scott to Lady Diana Scott of Harden, 28 May 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 1: ¶ 46 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1810-11 Found 1: ¶ n1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: Varieties Verse 2: p. 94a p. 94a Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 9 Found 2: ¶ 16 ¶ 18 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 2