Francis Reginald Scott

Francis Reginald Scott (born Aug. 1, 1899, Quebec, Can.—died Jan. 31, 1985, Montreal, Que.) was a member of the Montreal group of poets in the 1920s and an influential promoter of the cause of Canadian poetry. Scott helped found various literary magazines and also edited poetry anthologies. As a poet, he was at his best as a satirist and social critic. His Overture (1945), Events and Signals (1954), and The Eye of the Needle (1957)...