biography
pronunciation:
[sooter]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1943)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Perth, Perth and Kinross, E Scotland, UK. Educated at Perth Academy, he was conscripted into the Royal Navy (1916–19), then studied medicine and English at Edinburgh. His first volume of verse, published anonymously, was Gleanings by an Undergraduate (1923), followed by Conflict (1931). In 1933 he published his first volume of verse in Scots, Seeds in the Wind, for children. This was followed by his Poems in Scots (1935) and Riddles in Scots (1937), which gave him a permanent place in the Scottish literary revival. His remarkable Diaries of a Dying Man (1954) were written during a long and crippling illness, and mark him as an outstanding diarist. |
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