Robert Blair

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Standard Name: Blair, Robert,, 1699 - 1746

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Deverell
Each of the seven sermons in this edition has a topic, and an introductory verse quotation: from Young , Milton , Prior , Blair , Thomson , and Pope . MD 's repeated claims to...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Hatton
This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson 's Ossian on the title-page and Robert Blair (The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare and Milton for the succeeding volumes. It opens...

Timeline

March 1743
Robert Blair published his didacticpoem of death-inflectedsensibility entitled The Grave.