John Home

John Home (22 September 1722 – 5 September 1808) was a Scottish poet and dramatist.

John Home

Quotes

Douglas (first performed 1756)

• In the first days
  Of my distracting grief, I found myself
  As women wish to be who love their lords.
  • Act i, scene 1.

• I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.
  • Act i, scene 1.

• My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills
  My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain,
  Whose constant cares were to increase his store,
  And keep his only son, myself, at home.
  • Act ii, scene 1.

• A rude and boisterous captain of the sea.
  • Act iv, scene 1.

• Like Douglas conquer, or like Douglas die.
  • Act v, scene 1.

References to Home's work

• "Whaur's yer Wullie Shakespeare nou?"
  • Spectator at early performance of Douglas.

• Hugh MacDiarmid, the twentieth century pioneer of the Scottish Renaissance, included the following lines in A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1922):

My name is Norval. On the Grampian hills

It is forgotten, and deserves to be