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F. R. Scott : Criticism

Selected Poetry Book Reviews

The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott

Abley, Mark. "Public and Private Engagements." Maclean's 95.1 (4 January 1982): 47-48.
Fitzgerald, Judith. Quill & Quire 48.2 (February 1982): 44.
Fulford, Robert. "F. R. Scott's Sure Intelligence Still Shines Through." Toronto Star 16 January 1982: F12.
Norris, Ken. "Scott: Poet for All Seasons." Montreal Gazette 5 December 1981: 56.
Watt, F. W. "The Civilized Poet." The Canadian Forum 61 (March 1982): 32-33.
Whalen, Terry. "F. R. Scott: Modernist and Romantic Poet." Fiddlehead 135 (January 1983): 96-100.
Woodcock, George. Globe and Mail 2 January 1982: E14.

The Dance is One

Muir, Ann. Dalhousie Review 53.4 (Winter 1973/1974): 781-83.
Pacy, Desmond. Fiddlehead 99 (Fall 1973): 94-96.
Scobie, Stephen. Queen's Quarterly 80.4 (Winter 1973): 654-55.

Trouvailles

Cole, Barry. "An Alphabetical Review from London." Edge 9 (Summer 1969): 168-76.
Gasparini, Len. "Pop Poetry." Canadian Literature 39 (Winter 1969): 90-91.
MacCallum, Hugh. "Letters in Canada, 1967: Poetry." University of Toronto Quarterly 37.4 (July 1968): 373-74.

F. R. Scott: Selected Poems

Bell, Marvin. "Nine Canadian Poets." Poetry 111 (February 1968): 323-28.
Duncan, Chester. "New Canadian Poetry." Canadian Dimension 5.4 (April/May 1968): 39-40.
Goodwin, K. L. "A Canadian Satirist." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 4 (December 1967): 143-44.
Marshall, T. A. Queen's Quarterly 73 (Winter 1966): 608-09.

Signature

Daniells, Roy. Queen's Quarterly 71 (Autumn 1964): 447-48.
Marshall, Tom. "In Montreal." Alphabet 9 (November 1964): 73-74.
Sowton, Ian. The Canadian Forum 44 (March 1965): 282.
Wilson, Milton. "Letters in Canada, 1964: Poetry." University of Toronto Quarterly 34.4 (July 1965): 358-59.

The Eye of the Needle

Dudek, Louis. "'The Eye of the Needle'--of no Use to Camels." Delta 1 (October 1957): 17-19.
Duncan, Chester. "Poetry Chronicle." The Tamarack Review 3 (Spring 1957): 81-82.
Frye, Northrop. "Letters in Canada 1957: Poetry." University of Toronto Quarterly 27.4 (July 1958): 448.
Lucas, Alex. Fiddlehead 32 (May 1957): 34.
Pacey, Desmond. The Canadian Forum 36 (March 1957): 285-86.

Events and Signals

Berryman, John. "The Long Way to MacDiarmid." Poetry 88 (April 1956): 52-61.
Bevan, A. R. The Dalhousie Review 35.1 (Spring 1955): 94-98.
Pacey, Desmond. The Canadian Forum 34 (December 1954): 212-13.
Reaney, James. Queen's Quarterly 61 (Winter 1954/1955): 554-55.

Overture

Brown, E. K. "Letters in Canada, 1945: Poetry." University of Toronto Quarterly 15.3 (April 1946): 269-72.
Canadian Poetry Magazine 9.1 (September 1945): 33-35.
MacKay, L. A. The Canadian Forum 25.294 (July 1945): 97.
Martin, Burns. The Dalhousie Review 25 (Summer 1945): 261-62.

Biographies and Portraits

Barbour, Douglas. "F. R. Scott 1899-1985." Canadian Literature 105 (Summer 1985): 196.
Bird, John. Leading Personalities of the C.C.F. Convention. Ottawa, 1948. (pamphlet)
Djwa, Sandra. "F. R. Scott (1899-1985)." ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Poets. Eds. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW Press, 1993. 84-87.
Djwa, Sandra. The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F. R. Scott. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987.
Edel, Leon. Memories of the Montreal Group. St. John's: Deptartment of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1986.
Pacey, Desmond. "F. R. Scott." Ten Canadian Poets: A Group of Biographical and Critical Essays. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1958. 223-53.
Smith, A. J. M. "Scott, F. R." Contemporary Poets of the English Language. Ed. Rosalie Murphy. London: St. James Press, 1970. 968-70.
Thomas, Clara. "F. R. Scott." Our Nature--Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: New Press, 1972. 1: 106-09.

Bibliographies

Still, Robert. "F. R. Scott: An Annotated Bibliography." The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors. Eds. Robert Lecker and Jack David. Downsview, Ontario: ECW Press, 1983. 4:205-65.

Studies

Berger, Thomas. "F. R. Scott and the Idea of Canada." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 179-89.
Beutler, Bernhard. Der Einfluss des Imagismus auf die moderne kanadische Lyrik englischer Sprache. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 1978.
Brewster, Elizabeth. "The I of the Observer: The Poetry of F. R. Scott." Canadian Literature 79 (Winter 1978): 23-30.
Campbell, Wanda. "The Ambiguous Social Vision of F. R. Scott." Canadian Poetry 27 (Fall/Winter 1990): 1-14.
Casgrain, Thérèse. "The Achievements of F. R. Scott." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 3-5.
Collin, W. E. "Pilgrim of the Absolute." The White Savannahs. Toronto: Macmillan, 1936. Reprinted Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975. 177-204.
Combecher, Hans. "Interpretationen für den Englischunterricht: Langston Hughes, F. R. Scott, T. S. Eliot." Die Neueren Sprachen 67 (1968): 506-14.
Crépeau, Paul-A. "F. R. Scott et la réforme du Code civil." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 153-59.
Djwa, Sandra. "F. R. Scott." Canadian Poetry 4 (Spring/Summer 1979): 1-16.
Djwa, Sandra. "F. R. Scott." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989. 88: 280-87.
Djwa, Sandra. "F. R. Scott: A Canadian in the Twenties." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 19 (1980): 11-21.
Djwa, Sandra. F. R. Scott and His Works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1991.
Djwa, Sandra. "F. R. Scott (1899-1985)." Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Series. Eds. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW Press, 1990. 4: 173-227.
Djwa, Sandra. "'Nothing by Halves': F. R. Scott." Journal of Canadian Studies 34.4 (Winter 1999/2000): 52-69.
Djwa, Sandra, and R. St J. Macdonald, eds. On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983.
Dudek, Louis. "F. R. Scott and the Modern Poets." Northern Review 4.2 (December 1950/January 1951): 4-15.
Dudek, Louis. "Polar Opposites in F. R. Scott's Poetry." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 31-43.
Edel, Leon. "Literary Revolution: The 'Montreal Group.'" The McGill You Knew: An Anthology of Memories, 1920-1960. Don Mills, Ontario: Longman Canada, 1975. 112-22.
Edel, Leon. "The Young Warrior in the Twenties." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 6-16.
Gordon, J. King. "The Politics of Poetry." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 17-28.
Higginson, M. Constance. "A Thematic Study of F. R. Scott's Evolutionary Poetry." Journal of Canadian Poetry 1.1 (Winter 1978): 37-48.
Horn, Michiel. "F. R. Scott, the Great Depression, and the League for Social Reconstruction." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 71-77.
Horn, Michiel. "Frank Scott, the League for Social Reconstruction, and the Constitution." Canadian Constitutionalism: 1791-1991. Ed. Janet Ajzenstat. Ottawa, Canadian Study of Parliament Group, 1992. 213-23.
Jones, D. G. "F. R. Scott as Translator." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 160-64.
Jones, D. G. "Private Space and Public Space." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 44-54.
Le Dain, Gerald. "F. R. Scott and Legal Education." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 103-16.
Lederman, William R. "F. R. Scott and Constitutional Law." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 117-120.
Lefolii, Ken. "The Poet Who Outfought Duplessis." Maclean's 72 (11 April 1959): 16-17, 70-76.
Lewis, David. "F. R. Scott's Contribution to the CCF." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 78-88.
Macdonald, Roderick A. "F. R. Scott's Constitution." McGill Law Journal 42.1 (1997): 11-28. (abstract)
McNaught, Kenneth. "Socialism and the Canadian Political Tradition." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 89-100.
Mills, Allen. "Of Charters and Justice: The Social Thought of F. R. Scott, 1930-1985." Journal of Canadian Studies 32.1 (Spring 1997): 44-62.
Oliver, Michael. "F. R. Scott: Quebecer." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 165-76.
Purdy, Al. "Purdy's Scott: A Memoir in Response to Sandra Djwa's The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott." Canadian Literature 121 (Summer 1989): 126-31.
Querengesser, Neil. "Canada's Own Dark Heart: F. R. Scott's 'Letters from the Mackenzie River.'" Essays on Canadian Writing 47 (Fall 1992): 90-104.
Querengesser, Neil. "'In What Eye Sees': Shifting Centres in the Poetry of F. R. Scott." English Studies in Canada 16.4 (December 1990): 453-76.
Rao, Nageswara T. "Metaphor and Metonymy in the Imagistic Poetry of F. R. Scott and A. J. M. Smith." Literary Criterion 26.4 (1991): 8-18.
Rao, Nageswara T. "T. S. Eliot and the Canadian Response." The Literary Criterion 24.3-4 (1989): 69-80.
Rodman, Lilita. "Boldness, Audacity, Insolence: A Reading of F. R. Scott's 'Audacity.'" Inside the Poem: Essays and Poems in Honour of Donald Stephens. Ed. W. H. New. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. 186-95.
Sanders, Douglas. "Law and Social Change: The Experience of F. R. Scott." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 121-32.
Scobie, Stephen A. C. "The Road Back to Eden: The Poetry of F. R. Scott." Queen's Quarterly 79.3 (Autumn 1972): 314-23.
Scott, Peter Dale. "Alone on Ararat: Scott, Blake, Yeats, and Apocalyptic." Essays on Canadian Writing 55 (Spring 1995): 288-302.
Skelton, Robin. "A Poet of the Middle Slopes." Canadian Literature 31 (Winter 1967): 40-44.
Smith, A. J. M. "F. R. Scott and Some of His Poems." Canadian Literature 31 (Winter 1967): 25-35.
Steele, James. "Reconstructing Structuralism: The Theme-Text Model of Literary Language and F. R. Scott's 'Lakeshore.'" Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature. Ed. John Moss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1987. 153-167.
Stevens, Peter, ed. The McGill Movement: A. J. M. Smith, F. R. Scott and Leo Kennedy. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969.
Tarnopolsky, Walter. "F. R. Scott: Civil Libertarian." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 133-50.
Warkentin, Germaine. "Scott's 'Lakeshore' and Its Tradition." Canadian Literature 87 (Winter 1980): 42-50.
Watt, F. W. "The Poetry of Social Protest." On F. R. Scott: Essays on His Contributions to Law, Literature, and Politics. Eds. Sandra Djwa and R. St. J. Macdonald. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. 55-68.
Whiteman, Bruce. "The F. R. Scott Library." Fontanus 2 (1989).
Winkler, Donald. "Keeping Stride with F. R. Scott: Notes from a Film-Maker's Diary." Books in Canada 12.3 (March 1983): 3-4.

Dissertations

Adelman, Seymour. "Elements of Social Criticism in Canadian Poetry: With Emphasis on the Poetry of F. R. Scott and A. J. M. Smith." M.A. thesis. Université de Montréal, 1961.
Campbell, Terrence Maxwell. "The Social and Political Thought of F. R. Scott." M.A. thesis. Queen's University, 1977.
Martin, Jane. "F. R. Scott." M.A. thesis. Carleton University, 1966.
Moreau, Anne. "La vie politique de F. R. Scott, 1930-1939." M.A. thesis. Université de Montrçal, 1977.
Richardson, K. "The Poetry and the Social Vision of F. R. Scott." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Ottawa, 1983.
Roza, Alexandra M. "Towards a Modern Canadian Art, 1910-1936: The Group of Seven, A. J. M. Smith and F. R. Scott." M.A. thesis. McGill University, 1997.
Schultz, Gregory Peter. "The Periodical Poetry of A. J. M. Smith, F. R. Scott, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein and Dorothy Livesay, 1925-50." M.A. thesis. University of Western Ontario, 1957.
Stewart, Suzanne. "'A riddle of unvisualized land': Probing the Diversity of the Wilderness Landscape in Canadian Poetry and Painting (W. W. E. Ross, F. R. Scott, A. J. M. Smith)." M.A. thesis. University of Regina, 1998.

Other

The Achievements of F. R. Scott: An Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by The Centre for Canadian Studies, Simon Fraser University, February 20-21, 1981, Vancouver, B.C. Burnaby, B.C.: Simon Fraser University Publications, Continuing Studies, Simon Fraser University, 1981. [Recordings of presentations.] Conference program and 17 sound cassettes.