Burgess, James John Haldane (M)

Surname: Burgess
Forename(s): James John Haldane
b. 28 May 1862. d. 1927. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, short story writer, linguist, essayist, translator, musician, socialist, and private tutor. Alternative signature: J. J. Haldane Burgess. Born and lived in Lerwick, Shetland. Blind from 1887, and wrote with a typewriter designed for the blind. Educated at Anderson Educational Institute, Shetland, and then at the University of Edinburgh (graduating 1889). Edited The Shetlander. Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 76; Archives Hub https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/d64ad3e7-c96c-369b-b4b8-b949b9fb6064 (3 July 2019). (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 7
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Musing 1889-01-12 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13065
Evening 1890-08-09 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13153
A Zetland Winter 1890-12-20 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13172
Sea-Voices 1893-03-18 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13288
Peace 1893-09-23 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13315
A Shetland Summer 1896-07-18 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12767
Summer 1898-06-04 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12714