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Morgan was born in Glasgow and grew up in Rutherglen.His parents were Presbyterian.He convinced his parents to finance his membership of several book clubs in Glasgow. The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) was a "revelation" to him, he later said.
Published in 1969, his Six Glasgow Poems has been called 'epoch-making'. [1] The poems were first published as an insert in Glasgow University Magazine. [9]In 1984, he released Intimate Voices, a selection of his work from 1965 onwards including poems and essays on William Carlos Williams and "the nature of hierarchical diction in Britain."
The youngest of three brothers, [3] Robert Kerr Fulton was born into a non-theatrical family at 46 Appin Road, [4] Dennistoun, Glasgow. [5] Fulton's mother, who was 40 at the time of his birth, developed severe postnatal depression. Due to this, Fulton grew up a "solitary child" and developed a "voracious reading habit" throughout his childhood ...
George MacDonald was born on 10 December 1824 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to George MacDonald, manufacturer, and Helen McCay or MacKay.His father, a farmer, was descended from the Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe and a direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the massacre of 1692.
Crucifixion of Jesus: The Death of Captain Ward: 1901-01: More Poetic Gems: 1962 The Death of Captain Webb: 1883-08: The Real McGonagall: 1948: Matthew Webb: The Death of Fred Marsden, the American Playwright: 1888-06: Last Poetic Gems: 1968 The Death of John Brown: 1883-08: The Real McGonagall: 1948: John Brown (servant) The Death of Lord and ...
The success of his first volume of poems, A Life Drama and other Poems (1853), brought him fame and influential supporters that led to him being appointed Secretary of Edinburgh University in 1854. In Edinburgh, Smith was a near neighbour of the landscape painter Horatio McCulloch , who had also grown up in Glasgow, and the two became firm friends.
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Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. [8]