Malcolm, John, Sir, 1769-1833

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Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court; and G. & W.B. Whittaker, London, Edinburgh, 1824, 1824. MALCOLM, John (late of the 42d Regiment). The Buccaneer, and Other Poems. Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court; and G. & W.B. Whittaker, London,1824. First Printing. Pp. (4),[v]-vi,[1]-202. Small 8vo, blank brown wrappers with printed label to spine. Not in the Dictionary of National Biography.A collection of poem by the early-nineteenth century minor Scottish poet, which largely deals with his time spent as a member of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (commonly known as The Black Watch), fighting during the Napoleonic Wars. During the wars with Napoleon (during the years of Malcolm'sservice), the 42nd saw action in the Battle of Corunna, the Battle of Quatre Bras, and the Battle of Waterloo, among others. "The poetry, it is true,is not of the first order, but there are portions of it which possess verypleasing character. though it has not a single new image [as Malcolm hada tendancy to rely more on classical stylings and allusion], (it) cannot fail to interest the reader by its tenderness of feeling and ease of versification." (from the New Monthly Magazine review).Contents: 1. "The Buccaneer" (in two cantos); 2. "Lines to Spain"; 3. "Lines on a Dead Soldier"; 4. "The Aeronaut"; 5. "Palmyra"; 6. "The Spanish Lovers"; 7. "Stanzas to Greece"; 8. "The Camp"; 9. "Orkney"; 10. "Stanzas written at the Close of a Year"; 11. "Dream of a Wounded Soldier"; 12. "Home"; 13. "Lines to Melancholy";14. "Lines to Greece"; 15. "The Setting Sun"; 16. "St. Sebastian"; 17. "TheSteam-Boat"; 18. "Fergusson's Last Lucid Interval"; 19. "Song of a Spaniard"; 20. "Lines to Lord Byron"; 21. "Lines on the Loss of a Ship"; 22. "Lines on Napoleon"; 23. "To Mary"; 24. "Stanzas to Scio"; 25. "Lines on viewingthe Tomb of Sir John Moore"; 26. "Song on his Majesty's Procession to Holyrood"; 27. "Lines on the Disappearance of a Female Child"; 28. "Lines on Moscow"; 29. "Greece"; 30. "Song of the 42d Regiment"; 31. "Stanzas on a Lady"; 32. "Ocean"; 33. "The Warrior's Dirge"; 34. "Music"; 35. "Eve of Battleamong the Pyrenees"; 36. "Change"; 37. "Lines on the Death of Lord Byron"