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Peter Dale Scott (born 11 January 1929)〔W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 1028.〕 is a Canadian-born poet, academic, and diplomat. A son of the Canadian poet and constitutional lawyer F. R. Scott and painter Marian Dale Scott, he is best known for his critiques of deep politics and American foreign policy since the era of the Vietnam War. Although trained as a political scientist, Scott holds an atypical academic appointment as a poet-scholar in an English department. After receiving undergraduate degrees in philosophy (first-class honours) and political science (second-class honours) from McGill University in 1949, he studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (1949) and University College, Oxford (1950-1952) before receiving a Ph.D in political science from McGill (with a dissertation on T.S. Eliot as a social and political philosopher) in 1955. He briefly taught in McGill's political science department and spent four years (1957–1961) with the Canadian diplomatic service before joining the speech department of the University of California, Berkeley as a lecturer in 1961. He was subsequently promoted to assistant professor of speech (1962), associate professor of English (1968), and professor of English (1980); since his nominal retirement in 1994, he has served as professor emeritus of English.〔http://www.peterdalescott.net/cv.html〕〔http://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/103〕 He was a signatory in 1968 of the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, in which participants vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.〔"Writers and Editors War Tax Protest", ''New York Post'', January 30, 1968〕 ==Literary works== In terms of poetry, he is best known for his book-length poem ''Coming to Jakarta'' (subtitled "a poem about terror"), which describes in measured, prosodically regular verse the 1965 crisis in Indonesia that resulted in the Indonesian Civil War and the deaths of as many as half a million people, in which he believed the CIA to have played a role. Scott is far from a stridently political poet, working always to connect the polemical to the personal. In ''Coming to Jakarta'' he writes: :To have learnt from terror to see oneself as part of the enemy :can be a reassurance In the context of this emotional and psychological side of conflict, Scott alternates between descriptions of his own life—"dressed up in polished / gaiters with a buttonhook"—and the massive violence of his principal subject. Somewhere between confessional and scholarly, his poems often contain citations in the margins. Scott has described his poem ''Minding the Darkness'' as his most important, though he concedes that "Like other long poems by older men. . . it toys dangerously with abstract didactic principles."〔Introductory matter to excerpts from ''Minding the Darkness'', 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Dale Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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