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- William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a Scottish poet, humorist and writer. Born in Edinburgh, he was the only son of Roger Aytoun, a writer to the signet, and was related to Sir Robert Aytoun. To his mother, a woman of culture, he owed his early fondness for literature (including ballad poetry), his political sympathies, and his admiration for the House of Stuart. At the age of eleven years he was sent to the Edinburgh Academy, and from there to the University of Edinburgh. During 1833 he spent a few months in London studying law, but in September of that year he went to study German at Aschaffenburg, where he remained until April 1834. He then resumed his legal studies in his father's chambers, was admitted a writer to the signet during 1835, and five years later was certified a Scottish lawyer. By his own confession, though he followed the law, he never could overtake it. His first publication, a volume entitled Poland, Homer, and other Poems, in which he expressed his eager interest in the state of Poland, had been published during 1832. While in Germany he made a translation in blank verse of the first part of Faust; but, forestalled by other translations, it was never published. During 1836 he made his earliest contributions to Blackwood's Magazine, translations from Uhland, and from 1839 until his death he remained on the staff of Blackwood's. In it appeared most of his humorous prose stories, such as The Glenmutchkin Railway, How I Became a Yeoman, and How I Stood for the Dreepdaily Burghs. In the same magazine his main poetical work was published, the Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and a novel, partly autobiographical, Norman Sinclair. About 1841 he became acquainted with Theodore Martin, and in association with him wrote a series of humorous articles on the fashions and follies of the time, in which were interspersed the verses which afterwards became popular as the Ben Gaultier Ballads (1855). Another work was Firmilian, a Spasmodic Tragedy, under the nom-de-plume of T. Percy Jones, intended to satirise a group of poets and critics, including Gilfillan, Dobell, Bailey, and Alexander Smith. His reputation as a poet is based mainly on Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers (1848). During 1845 he was appointed professor of rhetoric and belles lettres at the University of Edinburgh. His lectures attracted large numbers of students, raising the attendance from 30 to 150. His services in support of the Tory party, especially during the Anti-Corn-Law struggle, received official recognition with his appointment (1852) as sheriff of Orkney and Zetland. He was married to a daughter of Professor Wilson (Christopher North).
- William Edmonstoune Aytoun war ein englischer Dichter. Aytoun studierte in seiner Heimatstadt Jurisprudenz und ließ sich dort 1840 als Anwalt nieder. Indessen widmete er sich mehr literarischen Arbeiten und schrieb namentlich für das ultraliberale Tait's Magazine zahlreicheund witzige Artikel. Bald aber wandte er sich dem Toryismus zu und wurde Mitarbeiter, später Redakteur des konservativen Blackwood Magazine; namentlich richtete er seine Feder gegen den Eisenbahnschwindel und die materialistischen Tendenzen der Manchesterschule. Eine historische Arbeit: Life and times of Richard, king of England (London 1840), fand nicht sonderlichen Beifall, desto größeren seine satirischen und polemischen Bon Gaultier ballads, die 1844 im Punch erschienen und später in einem Band vereinigt wurden. Im Jahr 1845 wurde Ayton Professor der Rhetorik und Schönen Wissenschaften an der Universität in Edinburgh, erhielt unter dem Ministerium Derby 1852 das Ehrenamt eines Sheriffs und Admirals der Orkney- und Shetlandsinseln und starb am 4. August 1865 auf seinem Landsitz Blackills in den schottischen Hochlanden. Seine kritischen Lehren vertrat er auch dichterisch durch Fi[?]milian, or the student of Badajoz; a spasmodic tragedy (1854), das die hyperpoetische Manier gewisser Modepoeten in übertreibender Nachahmung persiflierte. Sein eigentlicher Dichterruhm beruht aber auf den Lays of the Scottish cavaliers, einer an echter Poesie reichen Verherrlichung der Stuartkämpfer, die zuerst 1849 in London und Edinburgh erschien und zahlreiche Auflagen erlebt hat. Auch die Ballads of Scotland" (4. Aufl. 1859, 2 Bde. ), eine verdienstvolle, kritisch gesichtete und mit gelehrten Anmerkungen versehene Sammlung altschottischer Volkslieder und seine mit Martin gemeinsam erarbeitete Übertragung Goethescher Dichtungen (Poems and ballads of Goethe, 1859 u. öfter) fanden allgemeinen Beifall.
- Pubblicò alcune ballate di carattere patriottico, che riunì in seguito nei Canti dei cavalieri scozzesi.
- William Edmonstone Aytoun - szkocki poeta i humorysta. Urodzony i wykształcony w Edynburgu. W 1863 roku rozpoczął współpracę z pismem Blackwood's Magazine, która trwała do końca jego życia. Tam właśnie zamieścił większość ze swych humorystycznych utworów prozatorskich, m. in. The Glenmutchkin Railway, How I Became a Yeoman i How I Stood for the Dreepdaily Burghs. W tym samym czasopiśmie opublikowano jego główne dzieło poetyckie, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, oraz częściowo autobiograficzną powieść, Norman Sinclair. Inne napisane przez Aytouna utwory to The Bon Gaultier Ballads (wspólnie z Theodorem Martinem) i Firmilian, a Spasmodic Tragedy, wydane pod pseudonimem T. Percy Jones. W 1845 roku Aytoun otrzymał katedrę retoryki na edynburskim uniwersytecie, a w 1852 nadano mu funkcję szeryfa Orkadów i Szetlandów.
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- William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a Scottish poet, humorist and writer. Born in Edinburgh, he was the only son of Roger Aytoun, a writer to the signet, and was related to Sir Robert Aytoun. To his mother, a woman of culture, he owed his early fondness for literature (including ballad poetry), his political sympathies, and his admiration for the House of Stuart. At the age of eleven years he was sent to the Edinburgh Academy, and from there to the University of Edinburgh.
- William Edmonstoune Aytoun war ein englischer Dichter. Aytoun studierte in seiner Heimatstadt Jurisprudenz und ließ sich dort 1840 als Anwalt nieder. Indessen widmete er sich mehr literarischen Arbeiten und schrieb namentlich für das ultraliberale Tait's Magazine zahlreicheund witzige Artikel.
- Pubblicò alcune ballate di carattere patriottico, che riunì in seguito nei Canti dei cavalieri scozzesi.
- William Edmonstone Aytoun - szkocki poeta i humorysta. Urodzony i wykształcony w Edynburgu. W 1863 roku rozpoczął współpracę z pismem Blackwood's Magazine, która trwała do końca jego życia. Tam właśnie zamieścił większość ze swych humorystycznych utworów prozatorskich, m. in. The Glenmutchkin Railway, How I Became a Yeoman i How I Stood for the Dreepdaily Burghs.
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