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James Grainger was born about 1721 in Duns, Berwickshire, in southeast Scotland, the son of a tax collector.
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James Grainger was born about 1721 in Duns, Berwickshire, in southeast Scotland, the son of a tax collector.
Grainger graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1753. Grainger studied medicine at Edinburgh University, served as a military surgeon between 1745 and 1748 and settled in practice in London, where he became the friend of Doctor Johnson, William Shenstone, and other authors.
He is best known for his poem "Sugar-Cane" (1764). He lived in Saint Kitts from 1759 on. Grainger"s first poem, "Solitude", appeared in 1755.
In 1764, Grainger published Essay on the more common West-India Diseases, the first work from the anglophone Caribbean devoted to the diseases and treatment of slaves.
A self-taught Latinist, he published translations of classical Latin poems, the most notable being the Elegies of Tibullus. The poem "Sugar-Cane" remains one of the best descriptions of working life on an eighteenth-century sugarcane plantation.
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