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Winfield Townley Scott (1910-1968)

Poet, Journalist, Diarist.
Born 1910; died 1968. Active 1930-1968 in USA, North America


"Like Randall Jarrell, Scott wrote some of the most powerful poems to come out of World War Two, namely “The American Sailor and the Japanese Skull” and “Three American Women and a German Bayonet”; although in Scott’s case he never served in the military. Also like Jarrell, his death was haunted by rumours of suicide when, following a domestic quarrel on April 27th, 1968 he retreated to his backyard study and while intoxicated, over-dosed on sleeping pills during the early hours of the 28th. "