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Foreign News
July 12, 1827
The Wilmingtonian, And Delaware Advertiser
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
What is this article about?
A new Scottish poet named Rodgers, a Glasgow weaver supporting a wife and nine children on low wages, has emerged. His poems, featured in the Montreal Herald, are compared to Burns.
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OCR Quality
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Excellent
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Obscure Genius.—A new poet has started up in humble life in Scotland. His name is Rodgers, and he resides in Glasgow. He has a wife and nine children, which he has supported upon his wages, which never exceeded twelve shillings per week. The Montreal Herald contains two specimens taken from a forthcoming volume. One of them is of the simple plaintive cast, the other full of the rich and joyous of Burns. We would give the latter if it were not too Scottish in the dialect. The former is slightly common-place, but it is intelligible, and for a weaver, admirable.—Eng.
What sub-type of article is it?
Literary News
What keywords are associated?
Scottish Poet
Glasgow Weaver
Burns Comparison
Montreal Herald
What entities or persons were involved?
Rodgers
Where did it happen?
Glasgow, Scotland
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Glasgow, Scotland
Key Persons
Rodgers
Event Details
A new poet named Rodgers from humble life in Glasgow, Scotland, supporting a wife and nine children on wages up to twelve shillings per week, has poems in a forthcoming volume featured in the Montreal Herald. One poem is simple and plaintive, the other rich and joyous like Burns, though too dialect-heavy to reproduce.