JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP BIOGRAPHY
JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
SHAIRP, JOHN CAMPBELL (1819-1885). —Poet and critic, ed. at Glasgow and Oxf., became Prof. of Latin at St. Andrews 1861. Principal of the United Coll. there 1868, and Prof. of Poetry at Oxf. 1877-87. Among his writings are Kilmahoe and other Poems (1864), Studies in Poetry and Philosophy (1868), Culture and Religion (1870), and a Life of Burns in the English Men of Letters Series. He also collaborated with Prof. Tait in writing the Life of Principal Forbes ( q.v. ), and ed. the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth.