Lamont, Alexander (M)

Surname: Lamont
Forename(s): Alexander
Nationality: Scottish.
Poet, essayist, novelist, and school teacher. Pseudonym: The Vicar of Deepdale. Born 1842 or 1843 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, after which his family moved to Glasgow. Attended art classes at the University of Glasgow and worked as a school teacher. Headmaster of Quarter Ironworks’ School in Lanarkshire. Member of the Glasgow Ballad Club, Walter Scott Club, and the Wellpark Free Church Literary Society. Biographical information: David Herschell Edwards (ed.), One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets, third series (Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1881), pp. 291-5; The Harp of Renfrewshire, second series (Paisley: Alex. Gardner, 1873), p. xxv; Glasgow’s Literary Bonds (19 February 2020). (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 30
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Gone! 1868-03-14 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7629
Too Late! 1868-08-29 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7653
Waiting 1869-08-28 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7407
Changed 1872-09-14 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6854
Unto Death 1872-12-14 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6869
Only? 1874-08-08 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7018
Going Out With the Tide 1875-06-26 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7071
The Round of Life 1881-10-01 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7470
In the Border-Land 1886-01 The Argosy Poet 16611
A Renunciation 1887-01 The Argosy Poet 16635
Would We Return Again? 1887-06 The Argosy Poet 16646
The Mystic Muse of the Shell 1887-09-10 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12917
On the Borderland 1889-03 The Argosy Poet 16692
By the Gates of the Sea 1890-01 The Argosy Poet 16721
In a Bernese Valley 1891-02 The Argosy Poet 16770
My Album 1891-09 The Argosy Poet 16786
On the Heim-Weh Fluh 1892-05 The Argosy Poet 16808
By the Gates of the Sea 1892-06 The Argosy Poet 16811
That Evensong of Long Ago 1892-08 The Argosy Poet 16815
Would We Return Again? 1892-08 Victorian Magazine Poet 1543
The Angel of Eventide 1892-09 Victorian Magazine Poet 1544
A Man’s Remonstrance 1893-06 The Argosy Poet 16845
Last Words 1894-02 The Argosy Poet 16868
A Wayside Calvary 1894-12 The Argosy Poet 16891
Douglas Water, N. B. 1895-08 The Argosy Poet 16926
The Two Singers 1897-02 The Argosy Poet 20160
Interpretation 1897-03 The Argosy Poet 20161
Beata Solitudo 1897-04-17 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12663
A Seaside Memory 1899-04-29 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12564
Vesper 1900-10 The Argosy Poet 17192