WILLIAM KNOX BIOGRAPHY
WILLIAM KNOX BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
KNOX, WILLIAM (1789-1825). —Poet, s. of a farmer in Roxburghshire, wrote several books of poetry, The Lonely Hearth , Songs of Israel , Harp of Zion , etc., which gained him the friendship of Scott. He fell into dissipated habits, was latterly a journalist in Edin., and d. at 36.