xt7qjq0stw34_4434 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection James Montgomery manuscript poem, On an Infant, with clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. James Montgomery manuscript poem, On an Infant, with clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_52/Folder_30/Multipage24889.pdf 1847 June 26, undated 1847 1847 June 26, undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_4434 xt7qjq0stw34 MONTGOMEItY,JA.\I ‘ a distinguished
poet, was born, November , 1771, at Ir 'ne,
in Ayrshire. llis father was a Morav in
mis 'onary, who, leaving,r his son in York-
shiro to be educated, went to the \Vest
Indies, where he and the poo 'mother both
died, When only twelve yea old, he coin-
posed some poeina, but 1 ' ndications of

genius could not save him from the fate of
the poor, and he was sent to earn his bread
as assistant in a general shop. Thirsting,‘
however, for other ocenpations,he set out
for the metropolis in the hope of finding: a
publisher for his verses. The bookseller
who refused his poems made him his shop»
man In 1792 he gained a post in the estabA
lishment of {r Gales, abooksellcr ofshetlield,
who had set up a newspaper called the
Sheffield Register. On this paper Mont-
gomery worked can amm'c, and when his
master had to fly from England for printing
articles too liberal for the government, the
young poet became the editor and publisher
of the paper, the name of which he changed
to Sheilield Iris. Soon afterwards he was
prosecuted, fined, and imprisoned, for re-
printing a song commemorating “ The Full
of the llastile," and for an account he gave
of a riot in Sheffield. llut confinement could
not crush his love of justice, and on his re-
lease he went on advocating the doctrines
of freedom as before in his paper and in his
books, In the long,Y interval between those

times and the present, the opinions which
James Montgomery early pione . din Eng
land have obtained general ‘eeognition, and
as men became more lib l in their poli-
tical views, he gradually rose in estimation.
In 1797 he published “ Prison Amusements ;"
in 1505, the “ Ocean;” in 1806, the “Wain
derer in Switzerland;" in 1809, “The West
‘ Indies;” and in 1812, “The \Vorld before
the Flood" By these works,despite adverse
criticism in the Edinburgh Review, he
established his right to rank as a. poet. In
1819 appeared “ Greenland,” a poem in
five Cantos: and in 1828, “The l’eliean
Island, and other Poems.” In 1836 ap»
peared the first edition of his collected
poetical works, in three volumes; these
were followed, in 1841, by another edition,
in four volumes, embellished with por»
traits and vignettes; and lastly, in 1850,the
entire collection of his poems appeared in
a single volume. His latest contribution to
religious literature was a volume of ” Origin-
al Hymns.” In 1846 Sir ltobertl’eel conferred
on him a well-merited pension of £150 a
year. Montgomery was a fervent hater o
oppression and injustice. He was full 0
generous impulses, warm affections, and
earnest longings after the welfare of his
fellow-ei'catui His religion was of no
gloomy or set arian character, but genial,
broad, and healtl ' IIis “ Memoirs ” have
been mblished in 7 vols. Died, 1854.?”<'. 3

 

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