shopkeeper-poet

Updated: May 1, 2025

Such was royal Edinburgh still, when the shopkeeper-poet, with his jokes and his quips, and his good-humoured self-esteem, and certainty of his own power, settled down in Ramsay Lodge. It would be well if all poets had as prosperous and as fair a retirement for their old age.

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets