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John Veitch (poet)

John Veitch, Scottish philosopher, poet and historian: John was born in Peebles; the only son of Peninsular War veteran James Veitch and his wife, Nancy Ritchie; a woman, steeped in the folk traditions of the Borders; he was educated at the University of Edinburgh.

Publications
• Translations of Descartes' Discours de la méthode (1850) and Méditationes (1852) • An edition of Sir William Hamilton's lectures with memoir (1869, in collaboration with HL Mansel) • The Tweed and other Poems (1875) • Lucretius and the Atomic Theory (1875) • The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border (1877; ed. 1893) • Hamilton (1882) • The River Tweed from its Source to the Sea (1884) • Institutes of Logic (1885) • The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry (1887) • Knowing and Being (1889) • Merlin (1889) • Dualism and Monism (1895) • Border Essays (1896) ==References==
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