J. Logie Robertson ("Hugh Haliburton")



James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort on 18 September 1846, was educated at Edinburgh University, and became a school teacher in Edinburgh. From 1876 until 1913 he taught at the Edinburgh Ladies College, and the poetry he published under the pseudonym "Hugh Haliburton" gained great popularity. He died on 13 June 1922. AC

Poems (1878); Ordlana and Other Poems (1881) Our Holiday Among the Hills (with Janet Robertson, 1882) The White Angel of the Polly Ann (1886) ed. Selected Poems of Allen Ramsay (1887) ed. Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (1894) ed. Complete Works of Robert Burns (1896) ed. Complete Works of Thomas Campbell (1907) ed. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson (1908).

As Hugh Haliburton: Horace In Homespun: a Series of Scottish Pastorals (1882); For Puir Auld Scotland's Sake (1887); In Scottish Fields (1890); Ochil Idylls (1891); Furth in Field (1894); Dunbar: being a Selection from the Poems (1895); Executions in Prose and Verse (1905).

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