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A Short Biography of James Beattie

Author Name:

James Beattie

Born As:

James Beattie

Other Names:

Professor James Beattie

Born:

25 Oct 1735

Died:

18 Aug 1803




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Poet and essayist                          
Selected Works:

Original Poems and Translations - 1760
The Judgement of Paris - 1765
Poems on Several Subjects - 1766
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth - 1770
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius - 1771 - two volumes
Essays - The nature and immutability of truth in opposition to sophistry and scepticism. On poetry and music as they affect the mind. On laughter and ludicrous composition. On the utility of classical learning - 1776
Essays on Poetry - 1778
Scoticisms, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Designed to Correct Improprieties of Speech and Writing - 1779
Poems on several occasions - 1780
Dissertations Moral and Critical - 1783
The Evidence of the Christian Religion Briefly and Plainly Stated - 1786 - 2 vols.

The theory of language
Part I. Of the origin and general nature of speech. 
Part II. Of universal grammar - 1788

Elements of Moral Science - 1790-1793 - two volumes
The Poetical Works of James Beattie - 1831
The poetical works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer - 1868
James Beattie's Day-Book, 1773-1778
James Beattie's Diary - 1948.