Frederick George Scott

Frederick George Scott was a Canadian poet and author, known as the Poet of the Laurentians. He is sometimes associated with Canadas Confederation Poets, a group that included Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. Scott publishedbooks of Christian and patriotic poetry. Scott was a British imperialist who wrote many hymns to the British Empireeulogizing his countrys roles in the Boer Wars and World War I. Many of his poems use the natural world symbolically to convey deeper spiritual meaning. Frederick George Scott was the father of poet F. R. Scott.

Scott was bornApril 1861 in Montreal, Canada. He received a B.A. from Bishops College, Lennoxville, Quebec, in 1881, and an M.A. in 1884. He studied theology at Kings College, London in 1882, but was refused ordination in the Anglican Church of Canada for his AngloCatholic beliefs. In 1884 he became a deacon. In 1886 he was ordained an Anglican priest at Coggeshall, Essex. He served first at Drummondville, Quebec, and then in Quebec City, where he became rector of St. Matthews Anglican Church.

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