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Frederick George Scott
Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (7 April 1861 – 19 January 1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry, often using the natural world to convey deeper spiritual meaning.
He is better known for the latter part of his life. In his fifties, Scott became a chaplain in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France during the First World War. Despite his insistence on remaining close to the front line to give assistance to the wounded, he survived many close calls until he was seriously wounded only weeks before the Armistice. He was subsequently decorated for bravery under fire. His memoir, The Great War As I Saw It, was favourably received by both critics and the Canadian public. The book was still in print a century after publication. Scott remained a British imperialist his entire life, and wrote many hymns eulogizing his country's roles in the Boer Wars and World War I.
Scott was born 7 April 1861 in Montreal, Quebec to Dr. William Edward Scott (a professor of anatomy at McGill University) and Elizabeth Scott (nee Sproston). On 1 July 1867, when he was six, his father took him to the grounds of McGill University to hear artillery being fired in celebration of the Confederation of Canada.
Scott attended Montreal High School before studying theology at Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, receiving a B.A. in 1881, and an M.A. in 1884. Scott wanted to become an Anglican priest but he was public in his admiration of the Anglo-Catholic views of the theologian and Anglican-turned-Catholic Cardinal John Henry Newman, who believed the Church of England needed to break away from political influences and return to liturgical practices similar to the Catholic Church. This was anathema to the fervently anti-Catholic Anglican church in Quebec, and Bishop William Bond refused to consider Scott for the priesthood.
Scott instead travelled to England in 1882, where he studied theology at King's College, London. While there, Scott befriended the 84-year-old hymn writer Matthew Bridges, another convert to Catholicism, who arranged for a meeting between Scott and Newman. Scott's biographer, Alan Hustak, believes that Scott, like both Newman and Bridges, might have considered converting to Catholicism and becoming a celibate priest, except he had recently met and become involved with a woman named Amy Brooks. Scott stayed an Anglican, becoming a deacon in 1884. Two years later he was ordained an Anglican priest at Coggeshall, Essex. Returning to Quebec, he served first at Drummondville, and then in Quebec City, where he became rector of St. Matthew's Anglican Church. In 1906, Scott became a canon of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Quebec.
In April 1887, Scott married Amy Brooks. They raised seven children: William Bridges (b.1888, became Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court); Henry Hutton (b. 1890, killed in World War I); Mary (b. 1890, married an Anglican priest); Elton (b. 1893, became professor at Bishop's College School); Charles Lennox (b. 1895, died age 9);[citation needed] Francis Reginald (b. 1899, became a lawyer, poet and co-founder of the New Democratic Party of Canada); and Arthur Elliot Percival (b. 1901, became a Quebec notary).
In 1885, Scott printed his first chapbook, Justin and Other Poems, later included in The Soul's Quest and Other Poems (London 1888). Over the course of his life, he published another 12 volumes of poetry. Due to his use of spiritual and lyrical images taken from the natural world, he became known as "The Poet of the Laurentians." He was grouped with the Confederation Poets, first by anthologist W.D. Lighthall, who included two of Scott's poems in his 1889 anthology of the Confederation Poets, Songs of the Great Dominion. Lighthall also used a quotation from a Scott poem, "All the future lies before us / Glorious in that sunset land", on the title page as the book's epigraph. Scott was also a firm believer in the British Empire, and wrote several patriotic hymns during his life. In 1900, Scott was elected a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada during the Quebec Tercentenary. At the ceremony he read an ode he had written for the occasion titled "Canada."
John Garvin, who included Scott's poems in his 1916 anthology Canadian Poets, wrote of him: "Frederick George Scott, 'The Poet of the Laurentians,' has this supreme gift as a writer: the art of expressing noble, beautiful and often profound thoughts, in simple, appropriate words which all who read can understand. His poems uplift the spirit and enrich the heart." "The Unnamed Lake Archived 2 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine" has been called his best-known poem.
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Frederick George Scott
Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (7 April 1861 – 19 January 1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry, often using the natural world to convey deeper spiritual meaning.
He is better known for the latter part of his life. In his fifties, Scott became a chaplain in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France during the First World War. Despite his insistence on remaining close to the front line to give assistance to the wounded, he survived many close calls until he was seriously wounded only weeks before the Armistice. He was subsequently decorated for bravery under fire. His memoir, The Great War As I Saw It, was favourably received by both critics and the Canadian public. The book was still in print a century after publication. Scott remained a British imperialist his entire life, and wrote many hymns eulogizing his country's roles in the Boer Wars and World War I.
Scott was born 7 April 1861 in Montreal, Quebec to Dr. William Edward Scott (a professor of anatomy at McGill University) and Elizabeth Scott (nee Sproston). On 1 July 1867, when he was six, his father took him to the grounds of McGill University to hear artillery being fired in celebration of the Confederation of Canada.
Scott attended Montreal High School before studying theology at Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, receiving a B.A. in 1881, and an M.A. in 1884. Scott wanted to become an Anglican priest but he was public in his admiration of the Anglo-Catholic views of the theologian and Anglican-turned-Catholic Cardinal John Henry Newman, who believed the Church of England needed to break away from political influences and return to liturgical practices similar to the Catholic Church. This was anathema to the fervently anti-Catholic Anglican church in Quebec, and Bishop William Bond refused to consider Scott for the priesthood.
Scott instead travelled to England in 1882, where he studied theology at King's College, London. While there, Scott befriended the 84-year-old hymn writer Matthew Bridges, another convert to Catholicism, who arranged for a meeting between Scott and Newman. Scott's biographer, Alan Hustak, believes that Scott, like both Newman and Bridges, might have considered converting to Catholicism and becoming a celibate priest, except he had recently met and become involved with a woman named Amy Brooks. Scott stayed an Anglican, becoming a deacon in 1884. Two years later he was ordained an Anglican priest at Coggeshall, Essex. Returning to Quebec, he served first at Drummondville, and then in Quebec City, where he became rector of St. Matthew's Anglican Church. In 1906, Scott became a canon of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Quebec.
In April 1887, Scott married Amy Brooks. They raised seven children: William Bridges (b.1888, became Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court); Henry Hutton (b. 1890, killed in World War I); Mary (b. 1890, married an Anglican priest); Elton (b. 1893, became professor at Bishop's College School); Charles Lennox (b. 1895, died age 9);[citation needed] Francis Reginald (b. 1899, became a lawyer, poet and co-founder of the New Democratic Party of Canada); and Arthur Elliot Percival (b. 1901, became a Quebec notary).
In 1885, Scott printed his first chapbook, Justin and Other Poems, later included in The Soul's Quest and Other Poems (London 1888). Over the course of his life, he published another 12 volumes of poetry. Due to his use of spiritual and lyrical images taken from the natural world, he became known as "The Poet of the Laurentians." He was grouped with the Confederation Poets, first by anthologist W.D. Lighthall, who included two of Scott's poems in his 1889 anthology of the Confederation Poets, Songs of the Great Dominion. Lighthall also used a quotation from a Scott poem, "All the future lies before us / Glorious in that sunset land", on the title page as the book's epigraph. Scott was also a firm believer in the British Empire, and wrote several patriotic hymns during his life. In 1900, Scott was elected a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada during the Quebec Tercentenary. At the ceremony he read an ode he had written for the occasion titled "Canada."
John Garvin, who included Scott's poems in his 1916 anthology Canadian Poets, wrote of him: "Frederick George Scott, 'The Poet of the Laurentians,' has this supreme gift as a writer: the art of expressing noble, beautiful and often profound thoughts, in simple, appropriate words which all who read can understand. His poems uplift the spirit and enrich the heart." "The Unnamed Lake Archived 2 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine" has been called his best-known poem.