RPO -- Selected Poetry of William Mickle (1735-1788)

Selected Poetry of William Mickle (1735-1788)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2011, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

And will I see his face again,
And will I hear him speak?
I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet.
(There's Nae Luck about the House, 65-68)

Biographical information

Given name: William
Family name: Mickle
Birth date: 28 September 1735
Death date: 28 October 1788
Nationality: Scottish
Family relations
father: Alexander Meikle
mother: Julian Meikle
wife: Mary Mickle (from 3 June 1781)
Language: English
Education
Langholm grammar school
Edinburgh high school to 1750
Literary period: Age of Johnson
Occupations
Clerk
Corrector, Clarendon Press
Secretary to Romney man-of-war
Residences
Edinburgh
London
Langholm, Dumfriesshire: 28 September 1735
Wheatley, near Oxford: 1781
Buried at: Forest Hill churchyard
First RPO edition: 1996-2000