Author: [TAIT (John)]:
Title: The Cave of Morar, The Man of Sorrows. A Legendary Tale. In Two Parts.
Description: London: Printed for T. Davies...and sold by J. Vew..., and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh. 1774, FIRST EDITION. 4to, 252 x 208 mms., pp. [ii], 31 [32 adverts], disbound; lacks half-title. Tait's poem was noticed briefly in The Critical Review in 1774: "A legendary tale has something in its nature apt to impose upon the imagination, by the venerable robe of antiquity, in which it is usually veiled. This circumstance may give an appearance of merit to a composition, which, in reality, possesses very little of the spirit of poetry. The Cave of Morar, however, is not so much indebeted to deception, as to have no favourable claim to the verdict of criticism." Tait, John (1729 — 1800) was a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh and an acquaintance of Rober Burns.

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