Biography

Duncan Campbell Scott was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1862 and died in 1947. He, along with Archibald Lampman, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and Bliss Carman, is considered one of the Confederation Poets. A number of contemporary writings on Scott deal with the years he spent in the Department of Indian Affairs where he was deputy superintendent from 1913 until his retirement in 1932. Much of the discussion revolves around Scott's sympathetic poetic treatment of native culture versus the severe policies of the department he headed. Scott is also known for his devotion to the career of his friend, Archibald Lampman. Scott was involved in the publication of several of Lampman's books.

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Publications


The Magic House and Other Poems. Ottawa: J. Drurie, 1893.

Labor and the Angel. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1898.

New World Lyrics and Ballads. Toronto: Morang, 1905.

Via Borealis. Toronto: W. Tyrrell, 1906.

Lundy's Lane and Other Poems. New York: G. H. Doran, 1916.

Beauty and Life. Toronto: M&S, 1921.

Poems. Toronto: M&S, 1926.

The Green Cloister: Later Poems. Toronto: M&S, 1935.

The Circle of Affection and Other Pieces in Prose and Verse.
Toronto: M&S, 1947.

Selected poems of Duncan Campbell Scott. Toronto : Ryerson, 1951.

Selected poetry. Ed. Glenn Clever. Tecumseh P, 1974.

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Critical Materials

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Campbell, Wilfred. At the Mermaid Inn, conducted by
A. Lampman, W. W. Campbell, Duncan C. Scott. Being selections
from essays on life and literature which appeared in
the Toronto Globe, 1892-1893. Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. Ottawa, 1958.

Dragland, Stan, Ed. Duncan Campbell Scott: a book of criticism. Tecumseh P, 1974.

Dragland, Stan. "Forms of imaginative perception in the poetry of
Duncan Campbell Scott." Canadian Theses on Microfilm. Kingston, 1971.

Gerson, Carole. The Piper's Forgotten Time: Notes on the Stories of
D.C. Scott and A Bibliography. Montreal: Bellrock P, 1976.

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Articles


Bentley, D. M. R. "Duncan Campbell Scott and Maurice Maeterlinck."
Studies in Canadian Literature 21.2 (1996): 104-19.

Dyer, Klay. "Passing Time and Present Absence: Looking to the Future
in In the Village of Viger." Canadian Literature 141
(1994): 86-106.

Gerson, Carole. "The Piper's Forgotten Tune: Notes on the Stories
of D.C. Scott and a Bibliography." Journal of Canadian Fiction
 16 (1976): 138-43.

Harrison, Dick. "'So Deathly Silent': The Resolution of Pain and Fear in 
the Poetry of Lampman and D.C. Scott." The Lampman Symposium. 
Ed. Lorraine McMullen. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 1976. 63-74.

Lynch, Gerald. "In the Meantime: Duncan Campbell Scott's In the Village of Viger."
Studies in Canadian Literature 17.2 (1992): 70-91.

MacSween, R.J. "Three poetic landmarks in Canadian cultural history."
Antigonish Review 87-88 (1991 - 1992): 138-45.

McDougall, Robert L. "D.C. Scott: The Dating of the Poems."
Canadian Poetry 2 (1978): 13-27.

Normey, Rob. "Warring Elements of a Confederation poet."
Law Now 23.3 (1998-1999): 36-7.

Salem, Lisa. "'Her Blood Is Mingled with Her Ancient Foes': The Concepts 
of Blood, Race and 'Miscegenation' in the Poetry and Short Fiction of
Duncan Campbell Scott." Studies in Canadian Literature 18.1
(1993): 99-117.

Salem-Wiseman, Lisa. "'Verily, the White Man's Ways Were the Best':
Duncan Campbell Scott, Native Culture, and Assimilation."
Studies in Canadian Literature 21.2 (1996): 120-42.

Slonim, Leon. "D.C. Scott's 'At Gull Lake: August, 1810.'"
Canadian Literature 81 (1979): 142-43.

Titley, Brian. "Narrow vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the administration
of Indian affairs in Canada." Canadian Literature 116 (1988): 187-9.

Ware, Tracy. "The Beginnings of Duncan Campbell Scott's Poetic Career."
English Studies in Canada  26.2 (1990): 215-231.

Ware, Tracy. Notes on D.C. Scott's "Ode for the Keats Centenary".
Canadian Literature 126 (1990): 176-9.

Woodard, Joseph. "Tragic and prophetic voice: an NFB Documentary Criticizes
Canada's Poetic Indian Agent for Being Right." Western Report
10.6 (March 6 1996): 44.

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University of Calgary Information

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Internet Links


Selected Poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott. U of Toronto.
http://utl2.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/SCOTTD.HTML

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Miscellaneous


Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians.
Video. 1995. Available at: http://www.nfb.ca/FMT/E/MSN/34/34444.html

The Poet and the Critic: A Literary Correspondence between
D. C. Scott and E. K. Brown. Ed. Robert Law McDougall.
Ottawa: Carleton UP, 1983.

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