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Sydney Goodsir Smith
Born26 October 1915
Wellington, New Zealand
Died15 January 1975 (1975-01-16) (aged 59)
Edinburgh, Scotland
MovementScottish Renaissance

Sydney Goodsir Smith (26 October 1915 – 15 January 1975) was a New Zealand-born Scottish poet, artist, dramatist and novelist. He wrote poetry in literary Scots, sometimes referred to as Lallans, and was a major figure of the Scottish Renaissance.

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Sydney Goodsir Smith

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Sydney Goodsir Smith (26 October 1915 – 15 January 1975) was a New Zealand-born Scottish poet, artist, dramatist and novelist. He wrote poetry in literary...

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Ribaldry

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Burns (1982) The Merry Muses of Caledonia; edited by James Barke & Sydney Goodsir Smith. Loanhead: Macdonald, ISBN 0-904265-71-4 The dictionary definition...

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Scots language

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modern idiom. Other contemporaries were Douglas Young, John Buchan, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Robert Garioch, Edith Anne Robertson and Robert McLellan. The revival...

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Don Goodsir

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Murray. After three years Goodsir returned to Sydney where he taught while completing an Arts degree at the University of Sydney. After teaching in England...

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Lallans

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intended as a classical, standard Scots for a world-class literature. Sydney Goodsir Smith in his 1951 essay "A Short Introduction to Scottish Literature" commented:...

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Scottish Renaissance

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MacDiarmid by writing in Scots, including Robert Garioch (1909–1981) and Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975). The Glaswegian poet Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) became...

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Modern Scots

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John Buchan, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Robert Garioch and Robert McLellan. The revival extended to verse and other literature. William Wye Smith's New Testament...

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Stella Cartwright

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Scott and Sydney Goodsir Smith. She inspired Scott's poem of midlife crisis and religious loss, 'The Paschal Candil'. Letters from Goodsir Smith to Stella...

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Makar

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exemplify the traditions of the makars have included Robert Garioch, Sydney Goodsir Smith, George Campbell Hay and Norman MacCaig among many others.[clarification...

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George Mackay Brown

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During this period he met many of the Scottish poets of his time – Sydney Goodsir Smith, Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, Tom Scott and others – with whom...

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History of Scotland

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Hugh MacDiarmid by writing in Scots, including Robert Garioch and Sydney Goodsir Smith. Others demonstrated a greater interest in English language poetry...

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List of poets

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poet and novelist Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), Scottish poet in Braid Scots Tracy K. Smith (born 1972), US poet William Jay Smith (1918–2015), US poet;...

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The Oxford Bar

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patrons of the Oxford Bar, including Sydney Goodsir Smith and Willie Ross. In fact, the pub was first immortalised in Smith's Carotid Cornucopius. Ian Rankin...

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William Dunbar

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style, and "high-brow" subject matter, such as Hugh MacDiarmid and Sydney Goodsir Smith. As MacDiarmid himself said, they had to go "back to Dunbar". To...

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List of people from Wellington

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Mansfield – writer Bruce Mason – playwright Christopher Pugsley – writer Sydney Goodsir Smith – Scots language poet John Campbell – broadcaster and news journalist...

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List of University of Oxford people

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John Fuller (New College and Magdalen) Viola Garvin (Somerville) Sydney Goodsir Smith (Oriel) Richard Graves (Pembroke) Robert Graves (St John's) Julian...

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Scottish literature

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followed MacDiarmid by writing in Scots, including Robert Garioch and Sydney Goodsir Smith. Others demonstrated a greater interest in English language poetry...

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Iain Cuthbertson

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William Wallace in the Edinburgh International Festival production of Sydney Goodsir Smith's play, The Wallace, in August 1960, giving what the playwright Robert...

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List of people from Edinburgh

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Professor of Medical Law at University of Edinburgh Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), poet Sydney Smith (1771–1845), English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...

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List of Scottish poets

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William Henry Oliphant Smeaton Alexander Smith John Gibson Smith Morelle Smith Sydney Goodsir Smith Walter Chalmers Smith Charles Sorley William Soutar Muriel...

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Lines Review

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in 1952. Its original editorial board included the Scottish poets Sydney Goodsir Smith, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean and Denis Peploe...

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Literature in modern Scotland

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the Second World War writing in Scots included Robert Garioch and Sydney Goodsir Smith. Those working in English included Norman MacCaig, George Bruce,...

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Poetry of Scotland

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Second World War who wrote in Scots included Robert Garioch and Sydney Goodsir Smith. Those working in English included Norman MacCaig, George Bruce and...

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List of Scottish novelists

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Alexander McCall Smith (born 1948) Ali Smith (born 1962) Iain Crichton Smith (1928–1998), Consider the Lilies Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1995), Carotid...

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Modern Scottish Poetry

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Crombie Saunders - Tom Scott - Ann Scott-Moncrieff - Donald Sinclair - Sydney Goodsir Smith - William Soutar - Lewis Spence - Muriel Stuart - Ruthven Todd -...

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