James Montgomery

James Montgomery (1771 - 1854) was a British editor and poet.

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1771 - 1854 - British - Editor - Poet

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Montgomery, poet, son of a pastor and missionary of

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the Moravian Brethren, was born at Irvine, Ayrshire, and educated at the

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Moravian School at Fulneck, near Leeds. After various changes of

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occupation and abode, he settled in Sheffield in 1792 as clerk to a

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newspaper. In 1796 he had become editor of the Sheffield Iris, and was

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1796 - Sheffield Iris

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twice imprisoned for political articles for which he was held

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responsible. In 1797 he published Prison Amusements; but his first work to

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1797 - Prison Amusements

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attract notice was The Wanderer of Switzerland (1806). It was followed

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by The West Indies (1809), The World before the Flood (1812),

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The West Indies - The World before the Flood

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Greenland (1819), and The Pelican Island (1828), all of which contain

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Greenland - The Pelican Island

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passages of considerable imaginative and descriptive power, but are

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lacking in strength and fire. He himself expected that his name would

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live, if at all, in his hymns, and in this his judgment has proved true.

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Some of these, such as For ever with the Lord, Hail to the Lord's Anointed, and Prayer is the Soul's sincere Desire, are sung wherever

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For ever with the Lord - Hail to the Lord's Anointed - Prayer is the Soul's sincere Desire

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the English language is spoken. Montgomery was a good and philanthropic man, the

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opponent of every form of injustice and oppression, and the friend of

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every movement for the welfare of the race. His virtues attained wide

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recognition.

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