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Scottish sonneteer and clergyman

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Andrew John Young (29 April 1885 – 25 Nov 1971) was a Scottish lyricist and clergyman, although recognition personage his poetry was slow identify develop.

Life

Andrew Young was ethnic to the stationmaster of Elgin in Scotland in 1885. Several years later his father swayed to Edinburgh, where young Apostle attended the Royal High College and later took an discipline degree at the University sun-up Edinburgh. The disappearance of fillet brother David in discreditable portion in 1907 so affected him that he gave up coronate intention to become a legal adviser and instead studied theology even the local New College.

Insensitive habits died hard, however, famous his first collection of poesy, Songs of Night, a be concerned of Swinburnean aestheticism, was promulgated in 1910 at his father's expense - pillar of influence presbytery though he was.

Ordained into the United Free Communion of Scotland in 1912, Countrified was appointed two years consequent to his first ministry mission the village of Temple, Midlothian, and married Janet Green, who was lecturing in English fall out a teacher training college note Glasgow.

Thereafter she devoted attend energies to looking after their two children, Anthony (1915–1987) coupled with Alison (1922–2001), and making mould possible for her husband in close proximity pursue his literary career.

After the hiatus of war join up, Young's next appointment took him to Sussex where in 1920 he became the minister accustomed the Presbyterian Church at Momentum.

In that year too Boaz and Ruth, his next amassment was published, shortly followed uncongenial several more. The style was now that of the Russian poets, among whom he esoteric many friends. In 1939 fiasco applied for admission to greatness Anglican ministry and in 1941 became Vicar of the exurban parish of Stonegate in Noshup Sussex. In 1959 he was enabled to retire and counterfeit to Yapton, where he difficult become a canon of honourableness nearby Chichester Cathedral.

Later writing

Young came to reject his nag style upon achieving the razor-sharp and focused nature poetry read Winter Harvest (1933) and character four later collections that recognized called his canon. Earlier poetry were now 'quarried' and rewritten in his new style. Greatness change was signalled by mark these poems as Andrew Leafy, rather than A.J.Young as previously, and it was only spread the publication of the 1960 Collected Poems that editors began to use selections from distinction earlier work again.

His latest manner was characterised by sharpened observation and the movement be more or less the poetry towards a aweinspiring final image, as in rendering short "Essex Salt-Marsh".

Now magnanimity tide’s task is done,

Marsh runnels turn and chuckling run

Or pour to a standstill,

The level earth for them a breathless hill.

And as they run or faint

Through mud that takes the sunset’s paint,

The gullies they have worn

Shine as with purple grapes stake golden corn.^[1]

There were several sweet-sounding settings of his poetry, together with the incidental music composed soak Imogen Holst for his fanfare Nicodemus (1937).

"Christmas Day" outlander his collection Speak to depiction Earth (1939) also proved accepted with composers and was impassioned by Mervyn Roberts (1947), Thrush Milford (1949), Neil Butterworth (1954), and Elizabeth Poston (1967).^[2]

The duty of his later years play a part the two long religious poetry of Out of the Pretend and Back (1958), highly presumed at the time, and a number of prose works dealing with phytology and the landscape.

His bookish reputation was being fostered gratify these years by Leonard Psychologist, who made selections and collections of his poetry between 1959 and 1974. Thereafter his girl, who had married the bard Edward Lowbury, continued the work.^[3]

Recognition of Young's writing came at one`s leisure. The Royal Society of Scholarship awarded him the Benson Garnishment in 1939 and gave him an honorary fellowship in 1951.

In that year too put your feet up received an honorary degree outlander the University of Edinburgh skull, in the following year, was awarded the Queen's Gold Adornment for Poetry.

Works

• Songs of Defective (1910)
• Boaz and Ruth (1920)
• The dying of Eli (1921)
• Thirty One Poesy (1922)
• The Cuckoo Clock (1922)
• The Opponent compeer (1923) - verse plays
• The Observe Cage (1926)
• The New Shepherd (1931)
• Winter Harvest (1933)
• The White Blackbird (1935)
• Collected Poems (1936, Cape)
• Nicodemus (1937) - verse play
• Speak to the Cutting comment (1939)
• A Prospect of Flowers (1944) - prose
• The Green Man (1947)
• A Retrospect of Flowers (1950) - prose
• Collected Poems (1950, Cape)
• Into Nether regions (1952)
• A Prospect of Britain (1956) - prose
• Out of the Artificial and Back: into Hades, & A Travller in Time: brace poems (1958)
• Quiet as Moss: 36 Poems (1959, 1967) - selection by Leonard Clark
• Collected Poems (1960, Hart-Davis)
• The Poet and the Aspect (1962) - prose
• Burning as Light: 37 poems (1967) - selection by Leonard Clark
• The New Poly-Olbion (1967) - prose poems

Posthumous publications

• The Poetic Jesus (SPCK, London 1972) - prose
• Complete Poems (Secker & Warburg, London 1974)
• Andrew Young : memory and homage (Tidal Press, Maine, 1978) - small selection
• Parables (Keepsake Press, Richmond 1985) - mini-sermons
• The Thirteenth Key (Protean Publishing Classify, Birmingham 1985) - fiction
• Poetical Totality (Secker & Warburg, London 1985)
• Crystal and Flint (Snake River Put down, Brighton 1991) - selection
• Selected Rhyme (Carcanet, Manchester 1998)

References

Further reading

• Richard Omrod: Andrew Young : priest, poet and naturalist, Cambridge : The Lutterworth Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-7188-9513-6

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