Young, Andrew John (1885–1971)

Scottish poet. He wrote many nature poems and poems of religious reflection. His first book of verse, Songs of Night 1910, was published privately. He reached a public with his seventh, Winter Harvest, in 1933. ‘Into Hades’ 1952, a long poem about the soul entering death, became the first part of Out of the World and Back 1958. He also wrote prose works on flowers and topography.

Young was born in Elgin and studied at Edinburgh University. He was a Presbyterian minister until he joined the Church of England 1938. He was vicar of Stonegate, E Sussex, 1941–59 and was made a canon of Chichester Cathedral 1948.