CONTENTS 



Page 



Preface, 9 



Chronology, 13 



Chapter I — Scotland in the Eighteenth 



Century, 17 



II — Wilson's Early Years in 



Scotland, 39 



III — New LiEE in a New Land, ... 53 



IV — Tpie Making oe an American, 63 

 V — Wilson and Contemporary 



Americans, 74 



VI — The Completion oe the Orni- 

 thology, 92 



VII — Wilson, the Man, 117 



VIII — Wilson's Literary Writings, 128 



Bibliography, 151 



Selected Poems — 



The American Blue-bird, 157 



The Osprey, 159 



The Invitation, 161 



The Solitary Tutor, 166 



Watty and Meg, 172 



