George Gregory Smith
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Prof George Gregory Smith (20 June 1865 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish literary critic.[1]
In his Scottish Literature: Character and Influence (1919) Smith coined the term 'Caledonian antisyzygy' to describe what he perceived as a union of opposites, or an oscilation between realism and the supernatural, in the work of Scottish authors.[2] He corresponded with Mark Twain, and also lived in Florence[3] for a while.
He died in London but is buried with his wife Mary east of the western path in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.
He was married to Mary Cadell (1866-1909) daughter of Col Robert Cadell. A son was the colonial administrator Henry Graham Gregory-Smith.
