Poetry Codex

Romantic

James Wilson

fl. 1778 (Bell, Rhymes of Northern Bards)

James Wilson is represented here by verse printed in John Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards (Newcastle, 1812), 4 pieces and in The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-side Songster (Newcastle: W. & T. Fordyce, 1842), 1 piece.

Bell says James Wilson belonged to Hexham, taught school there and later at Cawsey Park, and published a volume of poems at Newcastle in 1778.

Poems (5)

  1. The Banks of the Tyne
  2. Ode to Sir Walter Blackett
  3. Lines on Laying the Foundation-Stone of Hexham Bridge
  4. A Song on Mr Coughron and Family, Leaving Hebron Hill
  5. Tyne

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