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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Soutar, William ___ 1898-1943 ___ British ___ poet BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Soutar was born in Perth, and studied at the local academy before joining the Royal Navy during the First World War. After the war he studied at Edinburgh University. Encouraged and inspired by Hugh McDiarmid, he published his first book of poems before graduating; several other volumes followed. By 1923, though, he had begun suffering from an illness contracted while serving in the Navy. After an unsuccessful operation in 1930 he spent the rest of his life - 13 years - confined to bed. Alexander Scott, author of a critical biography of Soutar, edited a selection of the poet's diaries and published them in 1954 as 'Diaries of a Dying Man'. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1930-1943 ___ literary self WEB TEXT LINKS one quote about ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Diaries of a Dying Man July 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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