JL
's volume opens with an address to the young Countess of Loudoun
, then one to the Public, then others to Hope, Happiness, and so on. She includes poems of love and courtship, pastorals...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Florence Dixie
The poems represent several distinct genres: heroic historical poems, like The Death of Robespierre, a tale of Nigel Bruce (brother of Robert the Bruce
), and a death-song for another Scots hero, Wallace
...