Romantic

Alexander Wilson

1766–1813


Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 3 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 1 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

  1. Connel and Flora
  2. Matilda
  3. Auchtertool
  4. The Fisherman’s Hymn
  5. The Blue-Bird

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