Значение слова MONTGOMERY в Литературной энциклопедии

1) JAMES (1771-1854).-Poet, _s._ of a pastor and missionary of the Moravian Brethren, was _b._ at Irvine, Ayrshire, and _ed._ at the Moravian School at Fulneck, near Leeds. After various changes of occupation and abode, he settled in Sheffield in 1792 as clerk to a newspaper. In 1796 he had become ed. of the _Sheffield Iris_, and was twice imprisoned for political articles for which he was held responsible. In 1797 he _pub._ _Prison Amusements_; but his first work to attract notice was _The Wanderer of Switzerland_ (1806). It was followed by _The West Indies_ (1809), _The World before the Flood_ (1812), _Greenland_ (1819), and _The Pelican Island_ (1828), all of which contain passages of considerable imaginative and descriptive power, but are lacking in strength and fire. He himself expected that his name would live, if at all, in his hymns, and in this his judgment has proved true. Some of these, such as _For ever with the Lord_, _Hail to the Lord's Anointed_, and _Prayer is the Soul's sincere Desire_, are sung wherever the English language is spoken. M. was a good and philanthropic man, the opponent of every form of injustice and oppression, and the friend of every movement for the welfare of the race. His virtues attained wide recognition. 2) MONTGOMERY, ROBERT (1807-1855).-Poet, a minister of the Scottish Episcopal Church, wrote some ambitious religious poems, including _The Omnipresence of the Deity_ and _Satan_, which were at first outrageously puffed, and had a wide circulation. Macaulay devoted an essay to the demolition of the author's reputation, in which he completely succeeded.