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Scott, Tom, 1918-1995

LC control no.n 50005597
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6069.C6
Personal name headingScott, Tom, 1918-1995
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Variant(s)B., 1918-1995
Associated countryGreat Britain Scotland
LocatedEdinburgh (Scotland)
Birth date1918-06-06
Death date1995-08-07
Place of birthGlasgow (Scotland)
Place of deathEdinburgh (Scotland)
Field of activityPoetry Criticism Editing
Profession or occupationPoets Critics Editors
Found inHis The ship and ither poems, 1963.
A possible solution to the Scotch problem, 1963: t.p. (by B)
Oxford DNB online, 31 Mar., 2015 (Scott, Thomas McLaughlin [Tom] (1918-1995), poet and literary critic; born on 6 June 1918, Glasgow; lived in London during the late 1940s and early 1950s; went through a phase as a poet of the New Apocalypse, a literary movement founded in the 1930s by Henry Treece and J. F. Hendry; moved to Edinburgh in 1956; he undertook his Scots translations Seeven Poems o Maister Francis Villon (1953); edited the anthologies The Oxford Book of Scottish Verse (with John Mac Queen, 1966) and Late Medieval Scots Poetry (1967); his edition of the Penguin Book of Scottish Verse appeared in 1970; died on 7 August 1995, Edinburgh)
Associated languagesco eng