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Alexander Scott Selected Poems

Alexander Scott (1920-1989), Selected Poems, 1950. Courtesy Goodreads.

Alexander Mackie Scott (1920–1989) was a Scottish poet, playwright, and academic.[1]

Life[]

Scott was born in Aberdeen.

He wrote poetry in both Scots and Scottish English as well as plays, literary reviews, and critical studies of literature.

He was latterly a tutor and reader of Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow, where he was instrumental in the struggle to create the 1st Department of Scottish Literature to exist in Scotland, established in the academic year 1971-72.

In 1972, Scott was a founder of the Lallans Society (later the Scots Language Society). He was a member of its committee from the outset and served as Preses from 1974 to 1977 and from 1979 to 1983. He also served as President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies from 1976 to 1979. In 1985 he succeeded Robert McLellan as Honorary Preses.[2]

In 1983, Scott became a founding editor of the periodical New Writing Scotland.

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • The Latest in Elegies. Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1949.
  • Selected Poems. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, for the Saltire Society, 1950.
  • Double Agent: Poems in English and Scots. Preston, Lancashire, UK: Akros, 1972.
  • Selected Poems, 1943-1974. Preston, UK: Akros Publications, 1975.
  • Collected Poems (edited by David S. Robb). Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1994.

Play[]

  • Untrue Thomas: A play in one act. Glasgow : Caledonian Press, 1952.

Non-fiction[]

  • Still Life: William Soutar, 1898-1943. London: Chambers, 1958.
  • The MacDiarmid Makars, 1923 - 1972. Preston, UK: Akros, 1972.
  • Sing Frae the Hert: Literary criticism (edited by Neil R. MacCallum). Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press, 1996.

Edited[]

  • Modern Scots Verse, 1922-1977. Preston, UK: Akros, 1978.
  • Scotch Passion: An anthology of Scottish erotic poetry. London: R. Hale, 1982.
  • The Comic Poems of William Tennant (edited with Maurice Lindsay). Edinburgh: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1989.
  • Voices of Our Kind: An anthology of modern Scottish poetry from 1920 to the present. (3rd ed.), Edinburgh, Chambers, 1987.

New Writing Scotland[]

  • New Writing Scotland (edited with James Aitchison). Aberdeen : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1983.
  • New Writing Scotland 2 (edited with James Aitchison). Aberdeen : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1984.
  • New Writing Scotland 3 (edited with Carl MacDougall). Aberdeen : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1985.
  • New Writing Scotland 4 (edited with Carl MacDougall). Aberdeen : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1986.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. Alexander Scott 1920-1989, Scottish Poetry Library. Web, Jun. 23, 2022.
  2. Purves, David, Obituary: Alexander Scott, in Lallans 33 (Martinmas 1989), 32.
  3. Search results = au:Alexander Scott 1920, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jun. 23, 2022.

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