Author:Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)

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Allan Cunningham
(1784–1842)

Allan Cunningham

Works

Poetry

• Songs: chiefly in the rural language of Scotland (1813) IA
• Sir Marmaduke, Maxwell, a dramatic poem; The Mermaid of Galloway: The legend of Richard Faulder; and Twenty-Scottish songs (1822)
• Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (1887) (transcription project)
  • 1822 edition IA 1, IA 2
• The maid of Elvar: a poem in twelve parts (1832)

Individual poems

• "Bonnie Lady Ann", published in Robert Hartley Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song (1810)
• "Address to an Incipient Editor" (1831) (transcription project)
• "A Sabbath Scene" (1831) (transcription project)
• "Margaret and Mary" (1831) (transcription project)

Novels

• Paul Jones, a Romance (1826) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
• Sir Michael Scott; a Romance (1828), in 3 vols.
• Lord Roldan. A romance (1836), in 3 vols.

Non-fiction

• Some account of the life and works of Sir Walter Scott (1832)
• The cabinet gallery of pictures by the first masters of the English and foreign schools: in seventy-two line engravings: with biographical and critical dissertations (1834)
• The life of Robert Burns (1835)
• The Life of Sir David Wilkie, with his journals, tours, and critical remarks on works of art (1843) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
• Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1830) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4, IA 5, IA 6
  • Life Of Blake, reprint of section in volume 2

As editor

• The anniversary; or poetry and prose for MDCCCXXIX (1829)

Works about Cunningham

• "Cunningham, Allan," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• David Hogg. Life of Allan Cunningham with Selections from his Works and Correspondence. Dumfries: J. Anderson & Son, 1875
• Obituary: The Times (London) October 31 1842, p. 5
• "Cunningham, Allan (1784-1842)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.