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Author: Keith, Charles

Biography:

KEITH, Charles (c 1755-1807: BAM)

Despite the popularity and frequent reprinting of “The Farmer’s Ha’,” little is known about its author. He was born at Montrose, the son of David Keith, and studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen (MA 1779). An eighteen-stanza version of “The Farmer’s Ha’” was first published in Ruddiman’s Weekly Magazine where other poems by Keith also appeared. He was a medical doctor and may have died at Durham. (BAM) SR

 

Books written (6):

Farmer's Ha': A Scots Poem.

Aberdeen/ Montrose/ Arbroath/ Edinburgh: A. Angus and Son/ D. Buchanan/ John Todd/ J. Dickson, 1776

The Har'st Rig and the Farmer's Ha': Two Poems in the Scottish Dialect.

Edinburgh: W. Berry, 1794

The Har'st Rig, and the Farmer's Ha': Two Poems in the Scottish Dialect.

2nd edn. Edinburgh: printed by J. Ruthven and Sons, 1801

The Fortunate Shepherdess . . . Rural Love; a Tale . . . . The Farmer's Ha' . . . Will and Jean . . . and the Waes o' War . . . ..

Edinburgh/ Leith: Ogle and Aikman/ W. Coke, 1804

Monody to the Memory of the Rev. Dr. Charles Nisbet . . . ..

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1805

The Farmer's Ha' . . . with the Farmer's Ingle.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1808