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Blair, Robert (poet)

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Blair, Robert (1699-1746)

Scottish poet and cleric. His one outstanding work is The Grave (1743), a poem in blank verse, nearly 800 lines long. In some passages it rises to sublimity, although in others it sinks to the commonplace. It was illustrated by William Blake.

Blair was born in Edinburgh. He became minister of Athelstaneford in East Lothian 1731.
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