Geoffrey Scott (11 June 1884 - 14 August 1929)[1] was an English poet, biographer, architect, and historian of architecture.[2]
Life[]
Scott was born in Hampstead, the son of Jessie (Thurburn) (1846-1932) and manufacturer Russell Scott (1837-1908).[1]
He was educated at Rugby School, and then at New College, Oxford, where he won the Chancellor's essay prize in 1908 for his historical essay, "The National Character of English Architecture."[2]
While still an undergraduate Scott was befriended by Mary Berenson, leading to his admission to the Florence 'circle' of Bernard Berenson. From 1907 to 1909 he was employed by Berenson; he worked on the design of the garden of I Tatti, the Berenson villa, with Cecil Ross Pinsent. This led to work on other gardens. It also brought him the friendship of John Maynard Keynes, who met him there.
In 1914 the publication of The Architecture of Humanism: A study in the history of taste made him a reputation.
In 1916 he married Lady Sybil Cutting, widowed in 1910 (who later married Percy Lubbock).[3]
He was a close friend of Edith Wharton.
It has been suggested that an unlikely love affair with Vita Sackville-West from 1923 to 1925 spurred him into his later literary production.
At the time of his death, of pneumonia in New York City, Scott had been retained as an editor of the papers of James Boswell.
Recognition[]
His long poem The Death of Shelley, written at Oxford, won the Newdigate Prize in 1906.[2].
His biography of Isabelle de Charrière, The Portrait of Zelide, won the 1925 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Publicationss[]
Poetry[]
- The Death of Shelley. Oxford, UK: Blackwell / London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1906.
- A Box of Paints. London: Bookman's Journal, 1923.
- Poems. London: Humphey Milford, for Oxford University Press, 1931.
Non-fiction[]
- The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste. London: Constable; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914.
- The Portrait of Zélide. London: Constable, 1925; New York: Scribner, 1926.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- Richard M. Dunn, Geoffrey Scott and the Berenson Circle: Literary and Aesthetic Life in the Early 20th Century, 1998.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Geoffrey Scott, Ancestry.com. Web, Feb. 20, 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Scott, Geoffrey, Dictionary of Art Historians. Web, Feb. 20, 2017.
- ↑ thePeerage.com - Person Page 20785
- ↑ Search results = au:Geoffrey Scott 1929, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Feb. 20, 2017.
External links[]
- Poems
- Geoffrey Scott at Poetry Nook (27 poems)
- Books
- Geoffrey Scott at Amazon.com
- About
- Scott, Geoffrey in the Dictionary of Art Historians
- Review of Geoffrey Scott and the Berenson Circle
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