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- Date: Tue 29th October
- Time: 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM
- Location Name: Portmoak Moss
- Address: Wellside Park, Scotlandwell KY13 9WF, United Kingdom
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Walk Description:
Michael Bruce was known as the Poet of Loch Leven, and when he died of pulmonary tuberculosis – then known as consumption – on July 15 1767 at the age of just 21, he was already lauded in Edinburgh and elsewhere, and especially in his native Kinross-shire. Bruce’s fine pastoral poetry influenced Robert Burns and many others. Michael Bruce was the son of a weaver from Kinnesswood, he could read by the age of four, and studied Latin and Greek. His relatives managed to find enough money for the 15-year-old prodigy to attend Edinburgh University where he began to write poetry.
Location Notes:
Car parking c 100m along track to south of Wellside Park (housing) Nearest facilities at Lochend Farm Shop c 0.5km to the south
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