Beschreibung:
<jats:p>DOUGLAS YOUNG, poet, scholar, Scottish Nationalist and internationalist, is described by the poet William Soutar after their first meeting as ‘an exceedingly tall fellow with a shovel‐beard—his leanness, longness and fringiness gave one the initial impression of a B.B.C. announcer who had partially metamorphosed into an aerial’, and adds: ‘didn't just get his wave‐length.’</jats:p>