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ROSS, ALEXANDER (1699-1784)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 739 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROSS, ALEXANDER (1699-1784) , Scottish poet, wad born on the 13th of
April
  1699 at Kincardine-O'Neil, Aberdeenshire. He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and became tutor to the children of Sir William
Forbes
  of Craigievar. He became in 1732 schoolmaster of Lochlee,
Angus
 , where the rest of his
life
  was spent. He had
long
  been in the habit of writing verse for his own amusement, when in 1768 he published, at the
suggestion
  of James
Beattie
 , The Fortunate Shepherdess . . . to which is (sic) added a few songs. This is a
pastoral
  narrative poem, written in obvious imitation of
Allan
  Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd. Its affectations are chiefly on the surface. The background of shepherd
life
  as known to Ross, and the rather sordid _motives of the characters, despite their high-sounding names of Helenore, Rosalind, &c., are depicted with uncompromising truth. He died at Lochlee, and was buried on the 26th of May 1784.
See Helenore, or the Fortunate Shepherdess, edited by John Longmuir (1866); also H.
Walker
 , Three Centuries of Scottish Literature (1893), ii. 2834. The bulk of Ross's writings remain in MS.


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