Bruce, Michael, a Scotch poet, born near Loch Leven, in poor circumstances, in the parish of Portmoak; studied for the Church; died of consumption; his poems singularly plaintive and pathetic; his title to the authorship of the “Ode to the Cuckoo” has been matter of contention (1746‒1767).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bruce, James * Bruce, Robert