A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Montgomery, Robert

by John William Cousin

Montgomery, Robert (1807-1855). -- Poet, a minister of the Scottish Episcopal Church, wrote some ambitious religious poems, including The Omnipresence of the Deity and Satan, which were at first outrageously puffed, and had a wide circulation. Macaulay devoted an essay to the demolition of the author's reputation, in which he completely succeeded.