Duncan Campbell Scott

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Duncan Campbell Scott (1933)

Duncan Campbell Scott (born August 2, 1862 in Ottawa , † December 19, 1947 there ) was a Canadian poet and narrator.

Life

Scott had to drop out of school for financial reasons after junior college in 1879 and accepted a position with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development . He worked here until 1932 and most recently held the position of deputy superintendent .

Scott, who had completed piano training in his youth, initially had musical ambitions. It wasn't until the late 1880s that he began to write regular articles for Scribner's Magazine, encouraged by his friend Archibald Lampman . In 1892/93 he wrote a weekly column with Lapman and William Wilfred Campbell under the title At the Mermaid Inn for Globe magazine . In 1893 his first volume of poetry, The Magic House and Other Poems , was published, followed by seven more. His first volume of short stories appeared in 1896 under the title In the Village of Viger .

In his stories and poems, Scott often thematized the life and culture of the indigenous people, whom he met on canoe trips in northern Ontario with his friend Lapman in the 1890s. After Lampman's death in 1899, he oversaw the publication of several of his poetry volumes.

After his retirement in 1932, Scott and his second wife, the writer Elise Aylen , traveled extensively through Canada, the United States and Europe, but wrote little. His last volume of poetry, The Circle of Affection, and Other Pieces in Prose and Verse , appeared a few months before his death in 1947.

In addition to short stories and poems, Scott also wrote a biography of John Graves Simcoe (1905) and a book on Walter Joseph Philipps . In 1923 he wrote the one-act drama Pierre for the Ottawa Little Theater . A novel was published posthumously in 1979 under the title The Untitled Novel . A collection of short stories was published in 2001 under the title The Uncollected Short Stories of Duncan Campbell Scott .

Scott has received many awards for his literary work. He became a Fellow in 1899 and President of the Royal Society of Canada in 1921 . The University of Toronto awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1922, Queen's University in 1939, and in 1927 he received the Lorne Pierce Medal for his contribution to Canadian literature .

Works

  • The Magic House, and Other Poems , 1893
  • In the Village of Viger , Stories, 1896
  • The Magic House: Labor and the Angel , Poems, 1898
  • New World Lyrics and Ballads , 1905
  • Via Borealis , poems, 1906
  • Lundy's Lane and Other Poems , 1916
  • Beauty and Life , Poems, 1921
  • The Witching of Elspie: A Book of Stories. , 1923
  • The Poems of Duncan Campbell Scott , 1926
  • The Green Cloister , poems, 1935
  • The Circle of Affection, and Other Pieces in Prose and Verse , 1947

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SURNAME Scott, Duncan Campbell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poet and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1947
Place of death Ottawa