Aytoun, William Edmonstoune (M)

Surname: Aytoun
Forename(s): William Edmonstoune
b. 21 June 1813. d. 4 August 1865. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, short story writer, translator, professor, and lawyer. Pseudonyms include “Augustus Dunshunner,” “Robert M’Corkindale,” “T. Percy Jones,” and “W. E. A. T.” Contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine from 1836 until his death and became a staff member of the periodical in 1844. In 1845 he became a professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres at the University of Edinburgh. Married Jane Emily, daughter of John Wilson, in 1849. Biographical information: ODNB. (CC, KF)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 87
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Minstrel’s Curse 1836-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11734
The Castle by the Sea 1836-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11735
The Count of Greiers 1836-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11736
Durand 1836-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11778
The Dream 1836-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11777
The Student 1836-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11775
Midnight Music 1836-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11776
The Twenty-Second Book of the Illiad. Translated into English Trochaics 1839-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11548
Hermotimus 1839-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11495
IV. Iotis Dying 1840-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11473
I. Charon and his Charge 1840-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11470
II. The Voice from the Tomb 1840-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11471
III. Love’s Witness 1840-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11472
Blind Old Milton 1841-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11126
The Burial March of Dundee 1843-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10033
Charles Edward at Versailles. On the Anniversary of Culloden 1843-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9950
The Violet 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10664
The Bride of Corinth 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10650
The Fisher 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10660
First Love 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10651
Mignon 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10658
The Doleful Lay of the Noble Wife of Asan Aga 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10665
The Heart of the Bruce. A Ballad 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10648
Second Life 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10653
Introduction 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10649
The Erl King 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10655
Who’ll Buy a Cupid? 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10652
The Minstrel 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10663
The Old Scottish Cavalier 1844-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10672
The Execution of Montrose 1844-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10678
A Night Thought 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10725
The Wild Rose 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10724
Prometheus 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10726
The Artist’s Morning Song 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10688
The Castle on the Mountain 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10695
Philine’s Song 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10696
The Magician’s Apprentice 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10736
The God and the Bayaderé. An Indian Legend 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10691
The Treasure-Seeker 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10693
Separation 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10735
New Love, New Life 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10734
To My Mistress 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10697
Cupid as a Landscape Painter 1844-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10685
The Breeze 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10921
The Park 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10936
Sacred Ground 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10935
The Cavalier’s Choice 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10922
Exculpation 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10940
Perfect Bliss 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10931
Holy Family 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10939
The Husbandman 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10925
The Swiss Alp 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10945
Phœbus and Hermes 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10942
The Muse’s Mirror 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10941
The Fairest Flower. The Lay of the Captive Earl 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10912
The Dance of Death 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10910
Retribution 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10923
Love’s Hour-Glass 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10928
Evening 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10918
The Teachers 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10937
The King in Thule 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10909
The Wreaths 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10944
Sorrow Without Consolation 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10913
The Brothers 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10927
Welcome and Departure 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10916
A New Love 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10943
Philomela 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10934
The Water-Man 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10908
A Calm at Sea 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10919
Marriage Unequal 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10938
Solitude 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10930
To a Golden Heart 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10915
The Death Trance 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10933
The Chosen Rock 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10932
Comfort in Tears 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10914
Warning 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10929
Anacreon’s Grave 1845-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10926
Epitaph of Constantine Kanaris. From the German 1847-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10786
The Hym of King Olaf the Saint. Altered from the Icelandic 1847-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 10787
Magus Muir 1847-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10730
The Widow of Glencoe 1847-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10732
Edinburgh after Flodden 1848-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10531
The Buried Flower 1848-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10515
Danube and the Euxine 1848-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10522
Latimer and Ridley. Burned at the Stake in Oxford, A. D. 1555 1851-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9098
The Golden Age. A Poem 1852-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9197
Crinoliniana 1863-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9669