Born in Tayport, Fife, on 5 June 1913, Douglas Young was one of the
most charismatic and distinguished Scots of his day. Described by
Nigel Tranter as a 'Poet, scholar, author, linguist, raconteur and
fighter of causes', he was a genuine polymath, an intellectual
giant, and his range of interests was exceptional. A brilliant
Classical scholar, who studied and later taught Latin and Greek, he
had a great facility for languages. Above all he was fluent in
'Lallans' or Lowland Scots, in the tradition of Burns, Scott and
Stevenson. Young was one of the leading 'Scottish Renaissance'
poets or 'neoLallans Makars', and his two notable volumes of his
poetry were Auntran Blads: an outwale of verses (1943) and A Braird
O Thristles (1947), included here. Among the mighty coterie of
post-MacDiarmid makars, Douglas Young stands out as an individual
voice. To their common mission of restoring the Scots tongue as a
fully-developed poetic language, he brings his formidable
erudition, his comprehensive knowledge of Scottish literature of
all periods and his highly-polished prosodic technique. To a
greater degree than almost any of his contemporaries, he succeeds
in integrating words from the mediaeval period, from the era of
Burns and from his own time and place into a consistent idiolect,
which he employs for poetic statements that are often beautiful,
often profound, and always thought-provoking. This new edition of
his poetry will confirm his place as one of the central figures of
the twentieth-century Scottish Renaissance. - J. Derrick McClure
Even in the fifties when I was starting out through university
politics, Douglas Young was a legend. For young minds, his two jail
sentences for refusing conscription were a singular demonstration
of moral courage and he paid the penalty of facing down the
establishment by not being awarded the professorship his talents
deserved. - Gordon Wilson, Former Chairman of the SNP and MP for
Dundee East
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