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MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS (1735-1788)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 380 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS (1735-1788) , Scottish poet, son of the minister of Langholm, Dumfries-shire, was born on the 28th of September 1735. He was educated at the Edinburgh ii.gh school, and in his fifteenth year entered business as abrewer. His father
purchased
  the business, and on his death William
Mickle
  became the owner; but he neglected his affairs, devoting his time to literature, and before long became bankrupt. In 1763 he went to London, where in 1765 he published " a poem in the manner of Spenser " called the Concubine (after-wards Syr Marlyn); was appointed corrector to the Clarendon
Press
 , and translated the Lusiad of Camoens into heroic couplets (specimen published 1771, whole
work
 , 1775). So
great
  was the repute of this translation that when Mickleappointed secretary to Commodore Johnstonevisited Lisbon in 1779, the king of Portugal gave him a public reception. On his return to London he was appointed one of the agents responsible for the distribution of prize-money, and this employment, in addition to the sums brought him by his translation of the Lusiad, placed him in comfortable circumstances.
It has been suggested that the Scottish poem " There's nae luck aboot the hoose " was
Mickle
 's. It is more likely, however, that Jean Adams was the author. Scott read and admired Mickle's poems in his youth, and founded Kenilworth on his ballad of Cumnor
Hall
 , which appeared in
Thomas
  Evans's Old
Ballads
  . . . with some of Modern Date (1784).


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