    andrew john young (29 april 1885 â 25 november 1971) was a scottish poet and clergyman. his status as a poet was recognised quite late and he received the queen's gold medal for poetry in 1952. ==life== andrew young was born to the stationmaster of elgin in scotland in 1885. two years later his father moved to edinburgh, where young andrew attended the royal high school and later took an arts degree at the university of edinburgh. the disappearance of his brother david in discreditable circumstances in 1907 so affected him that he gave up his intention to become a barrister and instead studied theology at the local new college . old habits died hard, however, and his first collection of poems, songs of night, a work of swinburnean aestheticism, was published in 1910 at his fatherâs expense - pillar of the presbytery though he was. ordained into the united free church of scotland in 1912, young was appointed two years later to his first ministry in the village of temple, midlothian, and married janet green, who was lecturing in english at a teacher training college in glasgow. thereafter she devoted her energies to looking after their two children, anthony (1915â1987) and alison (1922â2001), and making it possible for her husband to pursue his literary career. 440px|right|thumb|east sussex countryside after the hiatus of war service, youngâs next appointment took him to sussex where in 1920 he became the minister of the presbyterian church at hove. in that year too boaz and ruth, his next collection was published, shortly followed by several more. the style was now that of the georgian poets, among whom he had many friends. he was later to renounce these books upon achieving the honed and focused nature poetry of winter harvest (1933) and the four later collections that he called his canon. earlier poems were now âquarriedâ and rewritten in his new style. the change was signalled by signing these poems as andrew young, rather than a.j.young as formerly, and it was only from the publication of the 1960 collected poems that editors beg
1885_births 1971_deaths Anglican_poets Converts_to_Anglicanism People_from_Elgin,_Moray Scottish_poets