Lockhart, John Gibson (M)

b. 12 June 1794. d. 25 November 1854. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Writer, editor, translator, and biographer of Walter Scott. Pseudonyms include: “William Wastle” (after Burns’ poem “Willie’s Wife”), Dr. Scott. Educated at the Universities of Glasgow, Oxford, and Edinburgh. Married the eldest daughter of Walter Scott. Editor of *Blackwood’s Magazine* and the *Quarterly Review*. Biographical information: *ODNB*. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 61
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Here Follow the Notices, Done into Metre by an ingenious Friend 1818-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8219
The Mad Banker of Amsterdam; Or, the Fate of the Brauns 1818-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8223
The Mad Banker of Amsterdam; Or, The Fate of the Brauns 1818-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8244
The Mad Banker of Amsterdam; or, The Fate of the Brauns 1819-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8344
Odoherty’s Garland, in Honour of Mrs Cooke, the Great 1819-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8346
The Eve of St Jerry 1819-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8372
The Mad Banker of Amsterdam; or, the Fate of the Brauns 1819-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8379
Sonnet. To the beautiful Miss Lucy Forman. On seeing her shaking Canaster from one Bag into another 1819-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7751
Lines to Miss Fanny Forman, on Bidding her Farewell 1819-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7795
Captain Paton’s Lament 1819-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7821
Song, by Mr Wastle, On Proposing the Health of H. R. H. Prince Leopold 1819-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7816
The Clydesdale’s Yeoman’s Return. An Excellent New Ballad to the Tune of Grammachree. Written and Sung by Dr. Scott 1819-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7766
The Twenty-ninth of February. A Tragic Sketch 1820-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7828
The Flight from Granada 1820-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7841
Zara’s Ear-rings 1820-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7838
The Death of Queen Blanche 1820-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7836
The Lamentation of Granada for the Death of Celin 1820-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7840
Don Raymon of Butrago 1820-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7835
The Bullfight of Ganzul 1820-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7839
Andalla’s Bridal 1820-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7837
Sorrow is Dry 1820-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8445
Song for the Morning of the Day of St John the Baptist 1820-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8469
The Death of Don Alonzo of Aguilar 1820-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8470
The Testimonium, A Prize Poem 1820-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8533
“Ye citizens of London towne” 1820-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8785
The Building of the Palace of the Lamp 1820-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8786
Stanzas Dedicatory to Francis Jeffrey 1821-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9419
Song I. Comparisons are Odious. A Chaunt 1821-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9540
Song II. Cobbett’s Complaint. A Dirge 1821-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9543
The Wine-Bibber’s Glory—A New Song 1822-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9693
Song III. When This Old Book Was New 1822-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9691
When This Old Cap Was New 1822-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9692
Dialogue Between Willison Glass, Esq. of Edinburgh, and Jeremy Bentham Esq. of London 1822-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9712
Aria 1822-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9713
Byron to Murray 1822-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9711
Song, on the Wedding-Day of Timothy Tickler, Esq. and Miss Amarantha Aloesbud 1822-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9723
Dean Swift!!! 1822-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9724
Epilogue. Spoken by Christopher North, Esquire, and Sir A. Wylie, Baronet 1822-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9725
Count Fernan Gonsalez 1822-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9729
Desultory Stanzas Upon Receiving the Last Sheets of “Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, No. LXV,” From the Press 1822-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9732
Guarinos 1822-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9730
The Excommunication of the Cid 1822-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9728
Bernardo and Alphonso 1822-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9726
Bavieca 1822-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9727
On the Star of “The Legion of Honour.” (From the French) 1823-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9932
Count Alarcos and the Infanta Solisa 1823-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9929
The Avenging Childe 1823-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9928
“Greek and Latin” 1823-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9931
The Seven Heads 1823-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9927
A Riddle 1823-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9941
The Devonshire Lane 1823-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9940
To the Editor of the John Bull Magazine, On an Article in His First Number 1824-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10135
The King and the Minstrel of Ely. From the Norman-French 1829 The Keepsake Translator 3059
Lines Written on the Tweedside, September the 18th, 1831 1831-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11085
The Pursuits of Politics. A Poem 1832-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11221
North and South 1846-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11047
The Swiss Alp 1846-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11046
Goethe to His Roman Love. Attempted in the Original Metre 1846-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11043
Anacreon’s Grave 1846-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11044
The Warning 1846-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11045
The Twenty-Fourth Book of Homer’s Iliad, Attempted in English Hexameters 1846-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11344