Clive Scott (linguist)

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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]

[edit] 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)