About George Gregory Smith
Lived 1865 – 1932 (aged 66). George Gregory Smith was a British literary historian and literary critic.
Prof George Gregory Smith (20 June 1865 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish literary critic.
In his Scottish Literature: Character and Influence (1919) Smith coined the term 'Caledonian antisyzygy' to describe what he perceived as a union of opposites, or an oscilation between realism and the supernatural, in the work of Scottish authors. He corresponded with Mark Twain, and also lived in Florence for a while.
He died in London but is buried with his wife Mary east of the western path in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.
Family
He was married to Mary Cadell (1866–1909) daughter of Col Robert Cadell. A son was the colonial administrator Henry Graham Gregory-Smith.
Selected works The Days of James IV (1890) The Transition Period (1900) Specimens of Middle Scots (1902) Elizabethan Critical Essays, vol. I & vol. II (1904, editor) Scottish Literature: Character & Influence (1919).
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British literary critic (1865-1932)
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George Gregory Smith died on 3 March 1932.
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