  edwin george morgan  (27 april 1920 &ndash; 17 august 2010)professor edwin morgan: writer celebrated as one of the finest scottish poets of the 20th century, the independent. was a scottish poet and translator who was associated with the scottish renaissance. he is widely recognised as one of the foremost scottish poets of the 20th century. in 1999, morgan was made the first glasgow poet laureate. in 2004, he was named as the first scottish national poet: the scots makar. ==life and career== morgan was born in glasgow and grew up in rutherglen. his parents were presbyterian. as a child he was not surrounded by books, nor did he have any literary acquaintances. schoolmates labelled him a swot. he convinced his parents to finance his membership of several book clubs in glasgow. the faber book of modern verse (1936) was a "revelation" to him, he later said. morgan entered the university of glasgow in 1937. it was at university that he studied french and russian, while self-educating in "a good bit of italian and german" as well. after interrupting his studies to serve in world war ii as a non-combatant conscientious objector with the royal army medical corps, morgan graduated in 1947 and became a lecturer at the university. he worked there until his retirement in 1980. morgan first outlined his sexuality in nothing not giving messages: reflections on his work and life (1990).{{cite book |title=ethically speaking: voice and values in modern scottish writing |editor-first=james |editor-l
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