Scottish poet and essayist. He was born in a thatched house in Kilmarnock, in the Scottish Lowlands southwest of Glasgow. The son of Peter Smith and Helen Murray. His father was a Lowlander who worked as a designer of lace, calico prints, paisley patterns, and muslins. He died in Wardie, near Edinburgh.
DEATH OF ALEXANDER SMITH, THE POET
The English papers by the late steamers, announce the death of Alexander Smith, author of the "Life Drama," "City Poems," "Alfred Hagart's Household," and other books. For some time back Mr. Smith's health, never very robust, had been gradually failing, and he died on Saturday, January 5, near Edinburgh. He was still young - only, indeed, just entering on his thirty-seventh year; and he had of late, by cultivating prose literature almost exclusively, seemed about to enter on a new and more profitable ??eer of authorship than that of the poet usually is. Some few years ago the name of Alexander Smith broke into a sudden aned startling time. The public thought for a time that a great new poetic star had risen on the horizon and letters. Alexander Smith's friends hoped and belived that his best work - the work to make his fame - was to come. The disappointment is but another source of sorrow added to the many which are opened by his early death.
The New Orleans Times
New Orleans, Louisiana
Saturday, February 2, 1867
Vol: VI, Issue: 1196, Page: 11
Scottish poet and essayist. He was born in a thatched house in Kilmarnock, in the Scottish Lowlands southwest of Glasgow. The son of Peter Smith and Helen Murray. His father was a Lowlander who worked as a designer of lace, calico prints, paisley patterns, and muslins. He died in Wardie, near Edinburgh.
DEATH OF ALEXANDER SMITH, THE POET
The English papers by the late steamers, announce the death of Alexander Smith, author of the "Life Drama," "City Poems," "Alfred Hagart's Household," and other books. For some time back Mr. Smith's health, never very robust, had been gradually failing, and he died on Saturday, January 5, near Edinburgh. He was still young - only, indeed, just entering on his thirty-seventh year; and he had of late, by cultivating prose literature almost exclusively, seemed about to enter on a new and more profitable ??eer of authorship than that of the poet usually is. Some few years ago the name of Alexander Smith broke into a sudden aned startling time. The public thought for a time that a great new poetic star had risen on the horizon and letters. Alexander Smith's friends hoped and belived that his best work - the work to make his fame - was to come. The disappointment is but another source of sorrow added to the many which are opened by his early death.
The New Orleans Times
New Orleans, Louisiana
Saturday, February 2, 1867
Vol: VI, Issue: 1196, Page: 11
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