Originally Posted by
CropleyWasGod
Yeah, I did. I've recently become fascinated by his life and work. It's only taken me xx years :greengrin
Was trawling about Canongate Kirkyard a few weeks back. Seems he was the Jim Morrison of his day. Robert Burns paid for him to be disinterred from his pauper's grave and reburied properly. Robert (Devine?) wrote the epitaph, and that was subsequently rewritten by Robert Louis Stevenson.
To cap it all, pre-lockdown, I had a Sunday afternoon stroll around my old school. **** me if there isn't a plaque to him on the wall, that I probably passed a zillion times without even noticing. :greengrin:greengrin