Smith, Alexander, poet, born in Kilmarnock; began life as a pattern-designer, contributed to the Glasgow Citizen, wrote a volume of poems, “A Life Drama,” and produced other works in a style characterised as “spasmodic,” and which, according to Tennyson, “showed fancy, but not imagination” (1880-1807).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Smith, Adam * Smith, George