Works

• An Epitaph
• Elegy
• Elegy (Tir'd with the busy crouds)
• Elegy, Written In The Year 1758
• Epitaph [To This Grave Is Committed]
• Epitaph On Two Young Men Of The Name Of Leitch, Who Were Drowned In Crossing The River Southesk
• Epitaph, Intended For Himself
• Epitaph: Being Part Of An Inscription For A Monument
• Hope Beyond The Grave
• Law
• Life And Immortality
• Nature
• Ode On Lord Hay's Birthday
• Ode To Hope
• Ode To Peace
• On The Report Of A Monument To Be Erected In Westminster Abbey, To The Memory Of A Late Author (Churchill)
• Pygmaeo-gerano-machia: The Battle Of The Pygmies and Cranes
• Retirement
• Song, In Imitation Of Shakspeare's
• The Hares, A Fable
• Essay on the Immutability of Moral Sentiment
• An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism
• Dissertations Moral and Critical (1783)

Anthologized:

• "Thy shades thy silence now be mine" in Poems and Extracts by William Wordsworth (1905)

Works about Beattie

• "Beattie, James," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Beattie, James," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Beattie, James," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Beattie, James (1735-1803)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Beattie, James," in A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen, (ed.) by Thomas Thomson, Glasgow: Blackie and Son (1857, 2nd edition) in 9 vols.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

 

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