Prof Clive Scott, FBA

Career: UEA: asst lectr 1967-70, lectr 1970-88, reader 1988-91, prof of European literature 1991-2007, head Sch of Literature and Creative Writing 2004-05, emeritus prof of European literature 2008-; dir of studies Br Cncl summer sch for Soviet teachers of English 1983-88; Clark lectures Univ of Cambridge 2010; FBA 1994; Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques 2008

Books and Publications: French Verse-Art: A Study (1980), Anthologie Éluard (1983), A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French Verse (1986), The Riches of Rhyme: Studies in French Verse (1988), Vers Libre: The Emergence of Free Verse in France 1886-1914 (1990), Reading the Rhythm: The Poetics of French Free Verse 1910-1930 (1993), The Poetics of French Verse: Studies in Reading (1998), The Spoken Image: Photography and Language (1999), Translating Baudelaire (2000), Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (2002, R H Gapper Book Prize 2004), Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations (2006), Street Photography: From Atget to Cartier-Bresson (2007), Literary Translation and the Rediscovery of Reading (2012), Translating the Perception of Text: Literary Translation and Phenomenology (2012)