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Single Person record details
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Person Code
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GL243
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Forenames
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Edwin George
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Surname
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Morgan
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Dates
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1920-
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Epithet
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Writer and Professor of English
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Edwin George Morgan was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1920 . He attended the University of Glasgow but his studies were cut short by the Second World War during which time he served in the Middle East with the Royal Army and Medical Corps. Although strongly influenced by European literature, he remains a distinctively Scottish poet. Following the war, he completed his studies at Glasgow. First published in 1952, he is a writer who has attempted many forms, and is a winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He began teaching as a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow in 1947 becoming Titular Professor in 1975. He retired from Glasgow University as titular Professor of English in 1980, serving as Glasgow's first Poet Laureate 1999-2002. He continued to be an Emeritus Professor in the department.
The title of his 1973 collection, From Glasgow to Saturn, suggests the range of Morgan's subject matter.
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Associated records
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GB233/Acc.12332 | Copies of papers concerning the appointment of Edwin Morgan as Scots Makar | 2003-2004 | GB233/Acc.12391 | Copies of papers concerning the appointment of Edwin Morgan as Scots Makar | 2003-2004 | GB233/Acc.12948 | Autograph mss of ten poems by Edwin Morgan on Scotland's Favourite Paintings as selected by readers of The Herald with related papers and notes by Lesley Duncan and a copy of the resulting book Beyond the Sun (2007) | 2005 | GB233/MS.27493-27494 | Edwin Morgan | 1959-1984 | GB247/MS Morgan | Papers of Edwin George Morgan, b1920, writer and professor of English | 1931-2000 |
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