William Soutar

William Soutar

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 McDiarmid. This led to a radical alteration in his work, and he became a leading poet of the Scottish Literary Renaissance. 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.

One form of verse which he used was the cinquain (now known as American cinquain), these he labelled "epigrams".

References

*Strand,Brian ( Editor) "Flowers of Life" ,a selection of Cinquains. 2005 ISBN 1-903203-473

External links

* [http://www.williamsoutar.com/ The Official William Soutar Website]
* [http://wiiliamsoutar.blogspot.com/ A sample of Soutar's cinquains]
* [http://ichthys-articles.blogspot.com/ Article 'A Poet who outlived his fame]


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