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...David E. Shuttleton The Scottish poet Dr. Thomas Blacklock (1720-90) is often cited as the first professional man of letters to recognize the poetic achievements of Robert Burns. As Burns later recalled to John Moore, it was a letter from Blacklock in late 1786 praising the “Kilmarnock Poems...

... overly selective in his choice of blind poets? Mounsey does not mention a case reported by Catherine Packham in 2007 of the blind Scots- man Thomas Blacklock. A renowned poet, Blacklock was appointed in 1762 to serve as minister for a congregation in Kirkcudbright on Scotland s south- west coast. However...

... as nature’s abhorrence of the vacuum, for objections can be raised against every choice of life. Yet still the choice must be made. “Take the case of a man who is ill,” he advises Thomas Blacklock. “I call two physi- cians: they diff er in opinion. I am not to lie down, and die between them: I must do...

... Smollett to Alexander Carlyle. The poem appears on 23 26 of this edition, which I cite here by line number. 37. See the online edition of James Johnson s Scots Musical Museum (1787 96) hosted by Burns Scotland: Burns, in his notes on the Museum, recorded that Dr Civ i l Rage 2 9 Blacklock told me...