“It becomes a habit which would ever seduce us to say more than we ought to say and more than we have the experimental qualifications to state.”
About William Soutar
28 April 1898–15 October 1943
In a modest house on Wilson Street in Perth, Scotland, a small attic room served as both prison and sanctuary for one of Scotland's most remarkable twentieth-century poets. From this confined space, William Soutar would pen some of the most enduring children's verse in Scots literature while simultaneously crafting…