Clive Scott (linguist) explained

Clive Scott is a professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and the author of many ground-breaking books on French poetry.^[1]

Scott's book Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Legenda, 2002) was awarded the 2003 R. H. Gapper Book Prize by the UK Society for French Studies. This prize recognises the work as the best book published by a scholar working in Britain or Ireland in French studies in 2002.^[2]

Scott became a fellow of the British Academy in 1994.^[3]

Publications

• The Poetics of French Verse: Studies in Reading (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998);
• The Spoken Image: Photography and Language (London: Reaktion Books, 1999);
• Translating Baudelaire (Exeter; Exeter Univ. Press, 2000).
• Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Oxford: Legenda, 2002)
• A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French Verse (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• French verse-art: A Study (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
• Literary Translation and the Rediscovery of Reading (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Accessed 20 May 2008 . 20 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070707080033/http://www.sfs.ac.uk/clivescott.htm . 7 July 2007 . dead .
2. Web site: Announcement of Gapper Book Prize winner at the Society for French Studies. Accessed 20 May 2008 . 20 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070707080033/http://www.sfs.ac.uk/clivescott.htm . 7 July 2007 . dead .
3. Web site: British Academy List of fellows. Accessed 20 May 2008 . 20 May 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080304202651/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.asp?letter=S . 4 March 2008 . dead .