ALEXANDER WILSON 



POET-NATURALIST 



A STUDY OF HIS LIFE 

 WITH SELECTED POEMS 



By JAMES SOUTHALL WILSON, Ph. D. 



Assisiatit Professor in the Department of English and History 

 at the College of JVilliam and Mary 



Wild Fancy formed him for fantastic flight, 

 He loved the steep's high summit to explore, 

 To watch the splendor of the orient bright, 

 The dark deep forest, and the sea-beat shore." 



"Thfc Solitary Tutor," 



New York and Washington 



THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY 



1906 



