Clive Scott is a professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...

 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

R. H. Gapper Book Prize

The R.H. Gapper Book Prize, offered by the Society for French Studies, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 2002 for the best book published in the field of French Studies by a scholar based at an institution of higher education in the UK or Ireland.-Table of winners:-External...

 by the UK Society for French Studies

Society for French Studies

The Society for French Studies, or SFS, is the oldest learned association for French Studies in the UK and Ireland. It aims to promote teaching and research in French Studies within higher education....

. 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

British Academy

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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)