Edwin Morgan

Edwin Morgan was born in 1920 in Glasgow, grew up in Rutherglen in a Presbyterian family and in 1937 entered the university of his native city, where he studied French and Russian. He served in the army medical corps in the Near East, then taught English literature for forty years at Glasgow, which he never left again. He translated from Russian, Hungarian, Italian and Anglo-Saxon, and wrote for the stage and for opera. The first official poet of his city in 1999, he was in 2004 the first national poet of Scotland. He died in 2010.

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• PoetryFrom Glasgow to SaturnEdwin Morgan · 1973Literature