Robert Blair

Robert Blair (1699–1746) was a Scottish minister and poet, born in Edinburgh and for many years parish minister of Athelstaneford in East Lothian. He wrote little verse that survives.

His blank-verse poem The Grave (1743) is a gloomy meditation on death and the churchyard in the manner of the so-called graveyard poets, and was often reprinted, notably with William Blake’s designs in 1808.