The poet, political activist, and constitutional theorist Francis Reginald Scott (1899-1985) was a catalyst in the struggle for Canadian political, legal, and literary independence; for human rights a...
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F. R. Scott was one of the most important catalysts of modern English-Canadian poetry, partly because of the influence of his own poetry and partly because of a charismatic personality: he was instrum...
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Critical Essay by Desmond Pacey
As [F. R.] Scott pointed out in the preface to New Provinces, the onset of the economic depression of 1929–1936 provided the young experimental writers of the t...
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Critical Essay by Ian Sowton
The sardonic, sceptical habit—itself entirely salutary—has won Frank Scott many satirical victories but they've always struck me as rather easy ones....
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Critical Essay by James King
[F. R. Scott's] Selected Poems present an opportunity to reassess his literary contribution. The book makes little claim as great poetry; its value almost assumes ...
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Critical Essay by A.j.m. Smith
"He bears history,/the lakes/he dives under …" These lines will take us into the first poem in Scott's [Selected Poems,] "Lakeshore,&...
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Critical Essay by Marvin Bell
[F. R. Scott's Selected Poems,] often regional or topical, are appealing for the personality they define: intelligent, compassionate, skeptical but hopeful. Many ...
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Critical Essay by Stephen A. C. Scobie
F. R. Scott is best known, as a poet, for his social and literary satire…. The virtues of Scott's light verse are immediately obvious: clarity, wi...
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Critical Essay by Michael Hornyansky
The Dance is One is Frank Scott's eighth book of verse but the first one to turn up on my plate, so forgive my salute if it doesn't match the author...
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Critical Essay by Sandra Djwa
[F. R. Scott] has published verse—eight volumes—distilling in his poetry a profound and moving vision of the world and his place in it. As we read through ...
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Critical Essay by Germaine Warkentin
When [Frank] Scott issued his Selected Poems in 1966, "Lakeshore" was placed at the beginning, as if to constitute a signal itself, a definition of ...
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Critical Essay by Desmond Pacey
