'I like this fellow Alexander Scott - whoever he is', wrote Sydney Goodsir Smith to Maurice Lindsay soon after the Second World War. Literary Scotland certainly came to know who Alexander Scott (1920-89) was. In his day, he was one of the most...
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'I like this fellow Alexander Scott - whoever he is', wrote Sydney Goodsir Smith to Maurice Lindsay soon after the Second World War. Literary Scotland certainly came to know who Alexander Scott (1920-89) was. In his day, he was one of the most prominent of Scotland's poets, renowned for witty, passionate, vigorous poems in both Scots and English - poems embodying his high ideals of poetic craftsmanship and carrying forward MacDiarmid's literary Renaissance into the Sixties. In 1971, Scott became the first head of the world's only university department in Scottish Literature. A unique personality, Alexander Scott embodied much that was vital in his country's post-war culture. This is the first major biography of a hugely influential figure in the Scottish literary scene in the 20th century.
