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About William Wilkie
William Wilkie was a Scottish Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Natural Philosophy. Primarily remembered as a poet nicknamed Potato Willie, but known more respectfully as the "Scottish Homer", he contributed to Scotland's 18th-century Vernacular Revival. The son of a farmer, he was born in West Lothian and educated at Edinburgh. In 1757 he produced the Epigoniad, dealing with the Epigoni, sons of seven heroes who fought against Thebes. He also wrote Moral Fables in Verse.
Everything about William Wilkie →- Occupation
- writer, poet
- Born
- October 5, 1721
- Died
- October 10, 1772