- Alexander Bald
Alexander Bald, (1783–1859), poet.
Bald was a poet and frequent contributor to
The Scots Magazine . As the ‘father’ of the ‘Shakespeare Club of Alloa’, he became a friend and correspondent with the poetsJames Hogg (the club’s ‘laureate’, who wrote "Ode to the Genius of Shakespeare" for the club) and John Grieve [The Collected Letters of James Hogg, p.443, 2004, Edinburgh University Press ISBN 0748616713] . Bald features in Hogg's story "Some Passages in the Life of Colonel Cloud" that featured inBlackwood's Magazine in 1825 [‘Some Passages in the Life of Colonel Cloud' Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. XVIII, July - December 1825] . In the story, Colonel Cloud travels with the narrator to the annual Shakespeare Festival at Alloa, there they meet ‘Mr Alexander Bald’ ['The Genesis of ‘Gil-Martin’: James Hogg, ‘Colonel Cloud’, and ‘The Madman in the Mercury’' - David Groves, Notes and Queries, Volume 52, Number 4, December 2005, OUP] .Bald worked as a timber and brick merchant. His two best known poems feature in "The Modern Scottish Minstrel", Volume V. by Charles Rogers (1857) and three others are found in "The Poets of Clackmannanshire" by James Beveridge (1885). Alexander Bald was the brother of
Robert Bald , the engineer.Bibliography
* The Modern Scottish Minstrel, by Charles Rogers, LL.D. F.S.A. Scot.
* The Clackmannanshire Poets, by James Beveridge.References
External links
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22142 Two poems by Alexander Bald in "The Modern Scottish Minstrel", Volume V. by Various Project Gutenberg]
* [http://scotstext.org/roughs/clackmannanshire_poets/clackmannanshire_poets.asp Three poems in "The Poets of Clackmannanshire" ScotsText.org]
* [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YY5ixsdLvJIC&pg=PA33-IA1&lpg=PA33-IA1&dq=%22Some+Passages+in+the+Life+of+Colonel+Cloud%22&source=web&ots=Eujd4SE0hJ&sig=NiL0W8EYLZZGVktDGKeYqekamMw&hl=en#PPP7,M1 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. XVIII, July - December 1825]
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