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.