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Sydney Goodsir Smith was born on 26 October, 1915 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a New Zealand writer (1915–1975). Discover Sydney Goodsir Smith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 26 October, 1915
Birthday 26 October
Birthplace Wellington, New Zealand
Date of death 1975
Died Place Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality New Zealand

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1915

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.

He was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Catherine Goodsir Gelenick and Sydney Smith, a pioneer in forensic science who later became a Regius Professor in forensic medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

1928

He moved to Edinburgh with his family in 1928.

He was educated at Malvern College.

He went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine, but abandoned that, and started to study history at Oriel College, Oxford; whence he was expelled, but managed to complete a degree.

He also claimed to have studied art in Italy, wine in France and mountains in Bavaria.

1930

In the late 1930s, Smith was introduced to the works of Hugh MacDiarmid by Hector MacIver, a literary critic who taught English at Edinburgh's Royal High School.

1936

While travelling in Europe in 1936–37, he made drawings in Switzerland, Germany, Italy and France.

In post-war Scotland he made sketches of contemporary subjects and drawings to illustrate his poems.

He also sketched and painted watercolours on trips to the Highlands with Denis Peploe and Sorley MacLean.

1941

In a letter dated 1 November 1941 he informed MacDiarmid that he 'gave up writing English for Scots' after reading A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926).

His first poetry collection, Skail Wind, was published in 1941.

1947

Carotid Cornucopius (1947) was a comic novel about Edinburgh.

Other works broadcast by the BBC as dramas or poetic dialogues include The Death of Tristram and Iseult (1947), The Vision of the Prodigal Son (1959), The Stick Up or Full Circle (1961), The Twa Brigs (1964), A Night at Ambrose's (1972), Macallister (1973), and Gowdspink in Reekie (1976).

Unpublished works include Bottled Peaches, a novel which draws on his life as a student in Oxford, and The Merrie Life and Dowie Death of Colickie Meg, a dramatic adaptation and continuation of Carotid Cornucopius.

As a young man, Smith's ambition was to be an artist.

1948

Under the Eildon Tree (1948), a long poem in 24 parts, is considered by many his finest work; The Grace of God and the Meth-Drinker is a much-anthologised poem.

1951

His A Short Introduction to Scottish Literature, based on four broadcast talks, was published in 1951.

1959

His play The Wallace was broadcast on the radio in a BBC production by Finlay J. MacDonald on 30 November 1959.

1960

It was staged at the Kirk's Assembly Hall in a production by Peter Potter as part of the 1960 Edinburgh International Festival, with Ian Cuthbertson in the leading role.

Smith was art critic of The Scotsman from 1960 to 1967.

Smith was a member of the Scottish Arts Club and was associated with the editorial board for the Lines Review magazine.

He died in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh after a heart attack outside a newsagents on Dundas Street in Edinburgh, and was buried in Dean Cemetery in the northern 20th century section, towards the north-west.

His second wife, Hazel Williamson, lies with him.

He is commemorated by a "pavement poem" in the "Makars' Court" a section of James Court off the Lawnmarket on the Royal Mile.

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1964

Kynd Kittock's Land (1964) was a poem commissioned by the BBC for television broadcast.

1985

The play was revived by the Scottish Theatre Company in 1985.

1998

Drawings collected by the architect Ian Begg were published in a book edited by Joy Hendry in 1998.