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Sydney Goodsir Smith

Born

in Wellington, New Zealand

October 26, 1915

Died

January 15, 1975

Genre

Poetry In Scots, Scottish Literature

Influences

Hugh MacDiarmid, François Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart, James Joyce, Mark ...more

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Sydney Goodsir Smith was a Scottish poet, artist, dramatist and novelist. He wrote poetry in Scots and was a major figure of the Scottish Renaissance.

He studied medicine at Edinburgh, history at Oxford and art in Italy. His published work includes three volumes of poems, Skail Wind (1941), The Wanderer (1943) and The Deevil's Waltz (1946); a book of lyrics, Late into the Night (1947); a comic novel set in Edinburgh, Carotid Cornucopius (1947); and the long poem, Under the Eildon Tree (1948).

Smith was one of the outstanding poets of his generation. He gained a Rockefeller Atlantic Award in 1947, and in 1951 was one of the prize-winners in the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition organised by the Arts Council. ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 39 ratings · 8 reviews · 48 distinct works

	Carotid Cornucopius by Sydney Goodsir Smith, Hugh MacDiarmid (Preface) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1947 — 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
	Under the Eildon Tree 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1948	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
	Robert Fergusson, 1750 - 74: Essays by various hands to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth by Sydney Goodsir Smith (Editor), Albert D. Mackie (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1952	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
	Collected Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1975 — 6 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 Wallace: A Triumph in Five Acts it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1960 — 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
	A Short Introduction to Scottish Literature it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1951 — 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
	Kynd Kittock's Land really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1965 — 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
	Orpheus and Eurydice: A Dramatic Poem liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1955	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
	Sydney Goodsir Smith: A letter written to Maurice Lindsay in 1947 it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988	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 Drawings of Sydney Goodsir Smith: Poet by Sydney Goodsir Smith, Ian Begg (Collector), Joy Hendry (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998 — 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

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“From the time when Scots ceased to be the official language of government, since King's Scots had become King's English, the lack of a central authority to promote a standard had meant the growth of a bastard Anglo-Scots as the general lingo of society.”
― Sydney Goodsir Smith, A Short Introduction to Scottish Literature

tags: scots-language, scots-leid

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“When MacDiarmid spoke of "Synthetic Scots" he merely referred to another aspect of this necessary revolution; that we should forget the whole poverty-stricken "dialect" tradition that Burns and his immediate predecessors had been unconsciously responsible for, and use again all the rich resources of the language as Dunbar and the Makars had used it, as had Burns and Fergusson, Scott, Galt, Stevenson and George Douglas Brown.”
― Sydney Goodsir Smith, A Short Introduction to Scottish Literature

tags: scots-language, scots-leid

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“Some airt the linties maun be singan,
Here the winds are toom,
And aye the rain is dingan, dingan,
Dingan on the toun.”
― Sydney Goodsir Smith

tags: scots-language

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