Cunningham, Allan
Related Category: English Literature, 19th cent.: Biographies
1784–1842, Scottish author. His collection of
The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern (4 vol., 1825) included his own “A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea,” one of the best-known sea ballads. His six-volume
Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects appeared from 1829 to 1833.
