Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "John Redpath" in English language version.
Of John Redpath's life in Scotland before he left at the age of 20, we know only that he trained as a stone mason.
Moritz's poem, which is titled "The Current of the Sugar," is written in the form of a glosa, which takes four lines from an admired poem and uses them as the last lines in a new four-stanza poem. The four lines Moritz uses are from a poem written in 1858 by John Redpath, Redpath Sugar's founder.
Of John Redpath's life in Scotland before he left at the age of 20, we know only that he trained as a stone mason.
Moritz's poem, which is titled "The Current of the Sugar," is written in the form of a glosa, which takes four lines from an admired poem and uses them as the last lines in a new four-stanza poem. The four lines Moritz uses are from a poem written in 1858 by John Redpath, Redpath Sugar's founder.