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William Soutar

Born

in Perth, Scotland

April 28, 1898

Died

October 15, 1943

Genre

Poetry In Scots

Influences

Marion Angus, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Dunbar, Robert Henryson, Bessie ...more

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William Soutar was a Scottish poet, born 1898. He served in the navy in World War I, and afterwards studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he encountered the work of Hugh MacDiarmid. This led to a radical alteration in his work, and he became a leading poet of the Scottish Literary Renaissance and 'one of the greatest poets Scotland has produced'. In 1924, he was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. From 1930 he was bedridden. He died of tuberculosis in 1943. His journal, Diary of a Dying Man, was published posthumously and is considered to 'put him into the rank of the great diarists'

One form of verse which he used was the cinquain (now known as American cinquain), these he labelled epigrams. He took up this form in the second ha ...more

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William Soutar’s books

Average rating: 4.08 · 48 ratings · 11 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Diaries of a Dying Man 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into a Room: Selected Poems by William Soutar, Carl MacDougall (Editor), Douglas Gifford (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diary of a Dying Man by William Soutar, Joy Hendry (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems of William Soutar: A New Selection by William Soutar, William R. Aitken (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bairn's Sang and Other Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Poems in Scots and English by William Soutar, William R. Aitken (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems in Scots 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1935 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Ain Toun 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeds in the Wind: Poems in Scots for Children by William Soutar, Colin Gibson (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1933 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars