Clive Scott (linguist)

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.

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.

Scott became a fellow of the British Academy in 1994.

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)