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- He was a fascinatingly globalized, well-rounded, idiosyncratic author: an Edinburgh-trained physician; regular writer for the Monthly Review; the first English translator of the Roman poet Tibullus; author of both a pioneering neoclassical poem on Caribbean agriculture, The Sugar-Cane (1764), and the first English treatise on West-Indian disease; and the friend and correspondent of a number of well-remembered literati and arbiters of culture in his day, including Samuel Johnson, James Boswell,...
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James Grainger. James Grainger, M.D., was born about the year 1721, of, as he himself said, (1) a gentleman’s family in Cumberland, and, according to most accounts, at Dunse, a small town in Scotland. He received his medical education at Edinburgh.
Mar 31, 2017 · He was a fascinatingly globalized, well-rounded, idiosyncratic author: an Edinburgh-trained physician; regular writer for the Monthly Review; the first English translator of the Roman poet Tibullus; author of both a pioneering neoclassical poem on Caribbean agriculture, The Sugar-Cane (1764), and the first English treatise on West-Indian disease...
The Scottish doctor James Grainger settled on the West Indian island of St. Kitts in 1759. Upon his marrying there, Grainger's parents-in-law made him manager of the family's sugar estates. At the same time he also set up in medical practice and rode about the island visiting patients.
Organized into four books of blank verse, James Grainger's 1764 The Sugar-Cane. A Poem was first published in London in 1764 and became quite popular, appearing in a second edition only two years later.
8–32. Published: March 2009. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter examines James Grainger's The Sugar-Cane (1764). Grainger's text is as much a poem of evasion as of display, consistently censoring the racial and sexual oppression intrinsic to the plantation culture that inspires it.
Grainger's own evidently quixotic struggle to assimilate plantation slavery into a humanitarian vision of eighteenth-century commerce. With one foot firmly in the British tradition and the other on a West Indian plantation, Grainger's reliance on a mode like the georgic places great pressure on the poem to mediate between two irreconcilable ...
James Grainger (ca. 1721 - 1766) RA Collection: People and Organisations Physician; poet and translator. Settled in London in 1753; from 1759 to 1762 and 1764 to 1766 was in St. Kitt’s island. Profile. Born: ca. 1721 Died: 1766. Share
