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Like other works in the first series of English Men of Letters,
Shairp's 1879 biography of Robert Burns (1759 96) is a work of both
history and literary criticism that can be used as an entry point
to a wider study of its subject. Literary scholar John Campbell
Shairp (1819 85) was born in Linlithgowshire and educated at
Oxford. His publications include the essay collection Culture and
Religion (1870) and Studies in Poetry and Philosophy (1868), both
of which ran to multiple editions. In 1877 he was elected Professor
of Poetry at Oxford, and held that chair in conjunction with the
principalship of the United College of St Andrews until his death.
With the insights of a historian and a poet, Shairp explores Burns'
life through places lived in and travelled to, before turning to
the 'characters, poems, and songs' of a poet widely admired in the
late Victorian period.
First published in 1873, this co-authored biography of the Scottish
physicist, Alpine explorer, and university leader James David
Forbes (1809 1868) includes extracts from Forbes' letters. John
Campbell Shairp, Forbes' successor as principal of the United
College of the University of St Andrews, writes of Forbes'
personal, family, and professional life, including his years at St
Andrews. Forbes' student and his successor in the Natural
Philosophy chair at the University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie
Tait, himself an accomplished mathematical physicist who co-wrote,
with Lord Kelvin, Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867), discusses
Forbes' scientific achievements and contributions. A. Adams-Reilly,
a celebrated Irish mountaineer, cartographer, and friend of Forbes,
writes of the latter's Alpine travels and his work and interest in
glaciers. In Shairp's words, in addition to all of his academic
accomplishments, Forbes was also Britain's 'father of Alpine
adventure'.
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Robert Burns
John Campbell Shairp
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