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Author: Craik, John

Biography:

Craik, John (fl 1792-1802)

Other than what can be gleaned from his books no information has come to light. Songs and Poems is dedicated to Lord Viscount Arbuthnot and consists of flattering acrostics and occasional verse. A subscription edition, it includes an astonishing 25-page list of subscribers’ names (accounting for over 1000 copies). Loyal Songs and Poems identifies John Craik as DD on the title page; it is dedicated to Major Duff of Fetteresso. The poems written in Ireland exhort the disaffected Irish to be loyal to George III.

 

Books written (2):

Dundee: the author, 1792
Arbroath: [no publisher: printed by John Findlay], 1802