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American poet

For other people named Winfield Scott, see Winfield Scott (disambiguation).

Winfield Townley Scott (April 30, 1910 – April 28, 1968) was an American poet and diarist.

He also worked as a newspaperman and book reviewer.

Biography

Scott was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, seven days after the arrival of Halley's Comet. He was raised at Newport, Rhode Island and then returned to spend his teenaged years at Haverhill where he was editor of his high-school paper and developed his facility as a young poet.

Author, Winfield Townley Scott ; Publisher, Macmillan Company, ; Original from, the University of Michigan ; Digitized, Sep 8, ; Length, 61 pages.

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Winfield Townley Scott, born in , is the author of several books of poems, including Change of Weather (Doubleday, ), Collected Poems –

The Unfinished Man. Winfield Townley Scott.

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Savings provided by his grandfather enabled Scott to attend Brown University, from which he graduated in 1931.^[1]

After graduating from Brown he went to work for the city's main newspaper the Providence Journal, quickly becoming their book reviewer and Literary Editor.

He also wrote book reviews for other titles and with the advent of radio worked as a broadcast voice.

In 1943 he married the young heiress Eleanor Metcalf.