John Davidson

John Davidson (1857 – 1909) was a Scottish poet, playwright and novelist, best known for his ballads. He also made translations from French and German. In 1909, financial difficulties, as well as physical and mental health problems, led to his suicide.

Davidson's first published work was Bruce, a chronicle play in the Elizabethan manner, which appeared with a Glasgow imprint in 1886. Four other plays, Smith, a Tragic Farce (1888), An Unhistorical Pastoral (1889), A Romantic Farce (1889), and the brilliant pantomimic Scaramouch in Naxos (1889) followed.…more

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	Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin de Siécle by Kirsten MacLeod 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scottish Literature: An Introduction by Alan Riach 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2022 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fin-de-Siècle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity by Michael Shaw 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect: The Problem of Generalism and Specialisation in Twentieth Century Scotland by George Elder Davie really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1986 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Davidson by Mary O'Connor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1987 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Testament Of John Davidson [poems.] by John Davidson it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1908 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century by Roderick Watson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scotland and the 19th-Century World (SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 18) by Gerard Carruthers (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Davidson, First of the Moderns: A Literary Biography by John Sloan 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Davidson, poet of Armageddon by J. Benjamin Townsend 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1978 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars