Author:James Beattie

James Beattie
(1735–1803)

James Beattie

Works

• An Epitaph
• Elegy
• Elegy (Tir'd with the busy crouds)
• Elegy, Written In The Year 1758
• Epitaph [To This Grave Is Committed]
• Epitaph On Two Young Men Of The Name Of Leitch, Who Were Drowned In Crossing The River Southesk
• Epitaph, Intended For Himself
• Epitaph: Being Part Of An Inscription For A Monument
• Hope Beyond The Grave
• Law
• Life And Immortality
• Nature
• Ode On Lord Hay's Birthday
• Ode To Hope
• Ode To Peace
• On The Report Of A Monument To Be Erected In Westminster Abbey, To The Memory Of A Late Author (Churchill)
• Pygmaeo-gerano-machia: The Battle Of The Pygmies and Cranes
• Retirement
• Song, In Imitation Of Shakspeare's
• The Hares, A Fable
• Essay on the Immutability of Moral Sentiment
• An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism (1770)
• Dissertations Moral and Critical (1783)

Anthologized:

• "Thy shades thy silence now be mine" in Poems and Extracts by William Wordsworth (1905)

Works about Beattie

• "Beattie, James," in A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen, (ed.) by Thomas Thomson, Glasgow: Blackie and Son (1857, 2nd edition) in 9 vols.
• "Beattie, James (1735-1803)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Beattie, James," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Beattie, James," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Beattie, James," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)