Smith, Alexander

1830 – He was born this year in a thatched house in Kilmarnock, in the Scottish Lowlands south-west of Glasgow.

1854 – He was one of the leading representatives of what was called the “Spasmodic” School, now fallen into oblivion.

1857 – He also published City Poems this year.

1861 – He also published a Northumbrian epic poem titled Edwin of Deira.

1863 – He turned his attention to prose, and published Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country.

1865 – He also wrote “A Summer in Skye” this year.

1866 – His last work “Alfred Hagart’s Household” which ran first through Good Words.

1867 – He died in Wardie, near Edinburgh this year.