George Gregory Smith
Prof George Gregory Smith (20 June 1865 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish literary critic.[1]
In his Scottish Literature: Character and Influence (1919) Smith coined the term 'Caledonian antisyzygy' to describe what he perceived as a union of opposites, or an oscilation between realism and the supernatural, in the work of Scottish authors.[2] He corresponded with Mark Twain, and also lived in Florence[3] for a while.
He died in London but is buried with his wife Mary east of the western path in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.
Family
He was married to Mary Cadell (1866-1909) daughter of Col Robert Cadell. A son was the colonial administrator Henry Graham Gregory-Smith.
Selected works
- The Days of James IV (1890)
- The Transition Period (1900)
- Specimens of Middle Scots (1902)
- Elizabethan Critical Essays, vol. I & vol. II (1904, editor)
- Scottish Literature: Character & Influence (1919).
References
- ^ "SMITH, George Gregory". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1628.
- ^ Snodgrass, Charles, "The Scottish Novel in the Wake of Walter Scott, 1815-1830", in Craig, Cairns (ed.), The International Companion to the Scottish Novel, Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, p. 82, ISBN 9781908980434
- ^ Twain, Mark (1905). Mark Twain's Letters. Vol. 5.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
- Author and Bookinfo.com
External links
- Works by or about George Gregory Smith at Wikisource