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R. H. Gapper Book Prize awarded to Clive Scott The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce the award of the fourth annual R. H. Gapper Book Prize to Clive Scott, for his book Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000, published by Legenda. Legenda is the publications imprint of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, and Professor Scott's book appears in a series jointly published with the Modern Humanities Research Association. In his book, Clive Scott gives a subtle and adventurous account of how processes of cultural exchange have played an active and enduring role in the development of the language of poetry in French and English over a period of several centuries. Clive Scott is Professor of European Literature in the University of East Anglia and is the author of many ground-breaking books on French poetry. The award, which is for the best book published by a scholar working in Britain or Ireland in French studies in 2002, was made by the Editors of the journal French Studies, Professor Michael Freeman, Professor Alison Finch and Professor Patrick O'Donovan, together with Mr Richard Gapper, representing the R. H. Gapper Charitable Trust. Clive Scott's book was one of a number of very impressive works published in 2002. The judges' choice was made in the light of the book's originality and its likely impact on wider critical debate on the language of poetry and on questions of method and approach in comparative literature. The R. H. Gapper Book Prize will be presented to Professor Scott at the next Society for French Studies annual conference, which takes place in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 5 to 7 July 2004.
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