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GRAINGER, JAMES, author of an *Ode on Solitude*, and other poems, and the translator of *Tibullus*, was born about the year 1721 of "a gentleman's family in Cumberland" (his own statement); but Dunse in Berwickshire is said to have been the place of his birth. In 1759 he accompanied a rich West India proprietor to St Christopher's, where he resided about five years. He there wrote a poem on the "Sugar Cane," in which he dignified the poor negroes with the name of *sucains*. He died in London in 1766. Johnson considered the opening lines of his Ode a "noble" passage, and many parts of the poem are highly picturesque. Grainger was a learned and worthy man, much esteemed by the Johnson circle of wits.