Author:John Stuart Blackie

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John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895)

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Was an Scottish scholar, poet, and man of letters.

Works

• On the Living Language of the Greeks (1853)
• Homer and the Iliad (1866)
• On Democracy (1867)
• On Forms of Government (1867)
• Political Tracts (1868)
• Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism (1871)
• Essay on Self-Culture (1874)
• Horae Hellenicae (1874)
• The Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands (1876)
• The Natural History of Atheism (1877)
• The Wise Men of Greece (1877)
• Lay Sermons (1881)
• Altavona (1882)
• The Wisdom of Goethe (1883)
• The Scottish Highlanders and the Land Laws (1885)
• Life of Burns (1888)
• Scottish Song (1889)
• Essays on Subjects of Moral and Social Interest (1890)
• Christianity and the Ideal of Humanity (1893)

Poems

• “A Good Old Man” in Littell's Living Age, 144 (1860).
• “A Song of Summer” in Littell's Living Age, 127 (1634).
• “A Song of the Country” in Littell's Living Age, 129 (1672).

Translations

• Faust (1834)
• Aeschylus (1850)

Works about Blackie

• “Blackie, John Stuart” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Blackie, John Stuart” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Blackie, John Stuart” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Blackie, John Stuart” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Blackie, John Stuart,” in Dictionary of National Biography Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1901) in 3 vols.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.