1699 - 1746.

Scottish poet remembered for a single poem, The Grave.

Was influential in giving rise to the graveyard school of poetry.

Educated in Edinburgh and Holland.

Blair was ordained in 1731 and appointed to Athelstaneford, East Lothian.

Happily married with six children.

The Grave (1743), a long, uneven poem in blank verse, is a reflection on human mortality in mortuary imagery.



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