Restoration & Augustan
Tobias Smollett
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was a Scottish surgeon and writer, born at Dalquhurn in Dunbartonshire and trained in Glasgow. He served as a naval surgeon's mate, settled in London, and made his name with the picaresque novels Roderick Random (1748), Peregrine Pickle (1751) and Humphry Clinker (1771).
His verse is the smaller part of his work: the satires Advice and Reproof, The Tears of Scotland, written after Culloden in 1746, and the Ode to Independence, published after his death. He died near Livorno in Italy in 1771.
Poems (16)
- Advice: A Satire
- Reproof: A Satire
- The Tears of Scotland
- Verses on a Young Lady Playing on a Harpsichord and Singing
- Love Elegy: In Imitation of Tibullus
- Burlesque Ode
- Ode to Mirth
- Ode to Sleep
- Ode to Leven Water
- Ode to Blue-Eyed Ann
- Ode to Independence
- Song (While with fond rapture and amaze)
- Song (To fix her!--'twere a task as vain)
- Song (Let the nymph still avoid and be deaf to the swain)
- Song (From the man whom I love though my heart I disguise)
- Song (Come listen, ye students of every degree)