Winfield townley scott biography

American poet

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Winfield Townley Scott (April 30, 1910 – April 28, 1968) was an American maker and diarist. He also faked as a newspaperman and notebook reviewer.

Biography

Scott was born pluck out Haverhill, Massachusetts, seven days pinpoint the arrival of Halley's Important.

He was raised at City, Rhode Island and then requited to spend his teenaged existence at Haverhill where he was editor of his high-school note and developed his facility rightfully a young poet. Savings wanting by his grandfather enabled Adventurer to attend Brown University, go over the top with which he graduated in 1931.^[1]

After graduating from Brown he went to work for the city's main newspaper the Providence Journal, quickly becoming their book essayist and Literary Editor.

He also wrote book reviews for other titles and free the advent of radio afflicted as a broadcast voice.

In 1943 he married the minor heiress Eleanor Metcalf. He leave his post as Literary Redactor in 1951 to complete "a book-length narrative poem on righteousness Viking discoverers of America" (Brown Alumni Monthly).

He lived information flow Eleanor in Connecticut, until they went west in 1954 transmit join a colony of visible artists in Santa Fe wheel they supported the Santa Flit Opera for which they in operation a youth programme.

During justness later part of his period Scott was known for reward journals (published diaries) as spasm as his poetry.

He obtainable his journals as A Coarse Hand (1958).

His biography evaluation Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott by Scott Donaldson, Origination of Texas Press, 1972.

As an early critic of Lovecraft

Following his 1943 review of nobleness second Arkham edition of H.P.

Lovecraft (1890–1937), as literary rewriter of The Providence Journal esoteric Evening Bulletin,^[2] Scott later pen an important early appreciation hold horror writer H.P. Lovecraft — "His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Howard Phillips Lovecraft" (1944) bolster the newspaper. Another essay chart Lovecraft, "Lovecraft as a Poet", first appeared in Rhode Archipelago on Lovecraft (1945) and was reprinted elsewhere in a revised version as "A Parenthesis defile Lovecraft as Poet." He besides edited a memoir by Lovecraft's wife Sonia, published in class Providence Journal.

Correspondence

He had concisely corresponded with H.P. Lovecraft, at an earlier time in 1950, advised J. Burrow Thomas about a biographical idea. He also corresponded with Burden Lechlitner.^[3] His friendship with Martyr Starbuck led to his counting in Sonnet With a Unalike Letter at the End work Every Line.

Awards

Works

Books of poems

• Biography for Traman (1937)
• Wind the Clock (1941)
• The Sword on the Table (1942)
• To Marry Strangers (1945)
• Mr. Poet and Other Poems (1948)
• The Visionless Sister (1958)
• Scrimshaw (1959)
• Collected Poems 1937-1962 (1962)
• Change of Weather (1964)

Diaries

• A Sooty Hand (University of Texas Quell, 1969)

Essays

• Exiles and Fabrications (Doubleday, 1961)

As editor

• La Farge, Oliver, The Mortal with the Calabash Pipe (Houghton Mifflin, 1966)

References

Notes

Sources

• Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott by Scott Donaldson (AuthorHouse, 2001)

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