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Studies at Aberdeen University interrupted by service with the Gordon Highlanders 1941-45. Awarded the MC.

Alexander Scott (1920 - 1989) was the Scottish poet, playwright and scholar born in Aberdeen. He wrote poetry in both Scots and Scottish English and well as plays, literary reviews and critical studies of literature. He was latterly a tutor and reader of Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow, where he was instrumental in the struggle to create the first Department of Scottish Literature to exist in Scotland, established in the academic year 1971-72. Was a Scots makar.

Scott’s studies at Aberdeen University were interrupted by the War, during which he was awarded the M.C. for distinguished service with the Gordon Highlanders.

His first collection of poems, The Latest in Elegies, appeared in 1947; and at once established some of the themes and moods which were to typify Scott’s poetry throughout his life: bleak and forbidding imagery, a tough honesty of thought leavened by a vein of grim humour and occasional tenderness (as in the love poem Continent of Venus), and a natural wordsmith’s delight in the resources of his medium. His masterly handling of Scots at its most uncompromising