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Scott was born in Aberdeen on 28 November 1920. He served with the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders during World War II and was awarded the Military Cross. He graduated from Aberdeen University in 1947 and lectured at Edinburgh university and then at Glasgow, where he became head of the Department of Scottish Literature. In addition to writing poetry and plays (eg "Right Royal" (1950), "Untrue Thomas" (1952) and "Shetland Yarn" (1954) ) he was a founding member of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies and edited a number of literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a biography of William Soutar, whose "Diaries of a Dying Man" he edited. Among other poets whose work he edited was his sixteenth century namesake. He died on 14 September 1989. "Sing Frae the Hert", a selection of his literary criticism, was published in 1996.
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Prometheus 48 (1948) The Latest in Elegies (1949) Selected Poems (1950) ed. Selected Poems of William Jeffrey (1951) ed. The Poems of Alexander Scott c1530-c1584 (1952) Untrue Thomas (1952) Mouth Music (1954) Shetland Yarn (1954) ed Diaries of a Dying Man by William Soutar (1954) Still Life: William Soutar 1898-1943 (1958) Cantrips (1968) ed with Norman MacCaig: Contemporary Scottish Verse 1959-1969 (1970) Greek Fire (1971) Double Agent (1972) ed with Michael Grieve: The Hugh MacDiarmid Anthology (1972) ed with Doug las Gifford: Neil M Gunn, the Man and the Writer (1973) ed with Maurice Lindsay and Roderick Watson: Scottish Poetry 7-9 (1974-6) Selected Poems 1943-1974 (1975).
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