Robert Pollok (19 October 1798 – 15 September 1827) was a Scottish poet best known for his work, The Course of Time, published in the year of his death.

Biography

Pollok was born at North Moorhouse Farm, Loganswell, Renfrewshire, Scotland (now East Renfrewshire). Sources differ on the exact year of his birth, some giving 1789, some 1798, and some 1799. He studied at the University of Glasgow for the ministry of the United Secession Church. After Pollok's death, these would be published together under his name as Tales of the Covenanters.

In 1827, shortly before leaving the university, Pollok published what was to be his final and most famous work, The Course of Time, a ten-book poem in blank verse. By its fourth edition, The Course of Time had sold 78,000 copies and was popular as far away as North America.

References

  • David Pollok, The Life Of Robert Pollok: Author Of "The Course Of Time. Blackwood, 1843
  • Video footage of the Robert Pollok Centenary Monument