Canongate kirk. 에딘버러(Edinburgh)

Canongate kirk. 에딘버러(Edinburgh). 스코틀랜드(Scotland)

canongatekirk.org.uk

 

In 1688 King James VI
ordained that the mortification of Thos. Moodie granted in 1649 to build a church

should be applied to the erection of this structure

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Fergusson 동상

Robert Fergusson, Poet

(1750-1774)

Robert Fergusson was born just up the road in Cap and Feather Close (now demolished)

 

He attended teh Royal High School, Dundee Grammer School and the University of St. Andrew. The death of his father cut short his life as a student. To support his widowed mother and family he returned home to Edinburgh in 1772 and took an ill-paid job as a copyist clerk in the Commissionary Office.

 

His poetic career lasted for just three years. In 1774 he injured himself falling down a hight of steps and was incarcerated in the Edinburgh Bedlam as a madmen. Despite his early death, he died at the tender age o f24, he packed an intense outburst of creative energy into the last years of his life. His poetry in Scots expresses the character, spirit and very taste and smwll of the Edinburgh of his day.

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