Rachel Annand Taylor

Rachel Annand Taylor (3 April 1876 – 15 August 1960) was a Scottish poet, prominent in the Celtic Revival, and later a biographer and literary critic.

Later she taught at Aberdeen High School for Girls on a site which is now Harlaw Academy and carries a yellow plaque commemorating her.

In that year D. H. Lawrence met her at a literary party and, on being invited later to give a talk to the Croydon branch of the English Association, made her the subject.

[5] There is something of the earlier W. B. Yeats, especially in titles such as "The heavenly love is discontented with his lute" and "A soul laments the decay of her body", in her collection Rose and Vine (1909).

That was followed by the compact sonnet sequence The Hours of Fiametta (1910), in which a modern critic has detected the even earlier influence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

[6] Hugh MacDiarmid found promise in the way she dealt with consciously female themes there, but judged that ultimately her insistence on a bygone manner "robbed the Scottish Renaissance of one whose true place should have been at its head".