Bruce, Wallace (M)

Surname: Bruce
Forename(s): Wallace
b. 10 November 1844. d. 1914. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Poet, author, and lecturer. After graduating from Yale he visited Europe, witnessing the 1870 Franco-Prussian War in Paris, and then returning to the United States in 1871. Served as United States Consul in Edinburgh (1889-1893). Campaigned on behalf of Scottish Union soldiers in the American Civil War, including the commission of a commemorative monument in Edinburgh. Freemason, and Poet Laureate of Lodge Canongate Kilwinning. Publications include From the Hudson to the Yosemite (1884), Wayside Poems (1895), Leaves of Gold (1907). Biographical information: Wikimedia Commons; VIAF;“The Lyceum’s Picturesque Pioneer,” The Lyceum Magazine, July 1914, pp. 26-7. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 7
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
One Word 1889-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8526
Life’s Pauses 1890-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8403
Inch-Cailliach, Loch Lomond. [The island burial-place of Clan-Alpine, resembling, from Rossdhu, a reclining body with folded arms] 1890-10-11 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13162
“Uno de Mille.” One of the Thousand of Garibaldi. Lake Como 1892-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8225
The Gloaming 1893-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8220
Her Picture 1895-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8102
Laurelled 1899-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7945