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Rev Robert Blair (17 April 1699 – 4 February 1746) was a Scottish poet. His fame rests upon his poem The Grave, which in a later printing was illustrated by William Blake.
Robert Blair (born 1699, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Feb. 4, 1746, Athelstaneford, East Lothian) was a Scottish poet remembered for a single poem, The Grave, which was influential in giving rise to the graveyard school (q.v.) of poetry.
Robert Benjamin Blair (born December 18, 1972) is an American government official who served as the United States Special Representative for International Telecommunications Policy. Blair previously served as the clerk of the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense until 2017.
Nov 4, 2019 · The House committees leading the impeachment inquiry are hoping to hear from Robert Blair, an assistant to President Donald Trump and senior adviser to acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney,...
"The Grave" is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. According to Blair, in a letter he wrote to Philip Doddridge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister.
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The Grave. While some affect the sun, and some the shade, Some flee the city, some the hermitage; Their aims as various, as the roads they take. In journeying through life;—the task be mine, To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb; The appointed place of rendezvous, where all. These travellers meet.—Thy succours I implore,
Nov 3, 2019 · Robert Blair, a top adviser to acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, was expected to give testimony to ongoing closed-door House Intelligence Committee hearings on Monday, but a lawyer for Blair...
The graveyard school consisted largely of imitations of Robert Blair’s popular long poem of morbid appeal, The Grave (1743), and of Edward Young’s celebrated blank-verse dramatic rhapsody Night Thoughts (1742–45). These poems express the sorrow and pain of bereavement, evoke the horror of death’s physical…. Read More.
Nov 2, 2019 · Washington CNN — A top aide to White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Robert Blair, has refused to testify in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump after the White House...
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Robert Blair is the Arkadij Eisler Goldman Sachs Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. His research focuses on international intervention and the consolidation of state authority after civil war, with an emphasis on rule of law and security institutions.
