Robert Ford (poet)

Robert Arthur Douglas Ford CC (January 8, 1915 – April 12, 1998) was a Canadian poet, translator and diplomat.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of former "London Free Press" Editor-in Chief and University of Western Ontario Chancellor Arthur Ford, he received his B.A. in history and English in 1937 from the University of Western Ontario and a M.A. in history in 1940 from Cornell University. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1940 and was Ambassador to
Colombia (1957 – 1959), Yugoslavia (1959 – 1961), United Arab Republic (1961 – 1963), and to the USSR (1964 – 1980).

In 1971 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

Bibliography

* "Window on the North" (1956), winner of the 1956 Governor General's Award for Poetry or Drama
* "The Solitary City" (1969)
* "Needle in the Eye" (1983)
* "Doors, Words, and Silence" (1985)
* "Russian Poetry: A Personal Anthology" (1984)
* "Dostoevsky and Other Poems" (1988)
* "Our Man in Moscow" (1989)

References

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External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002892 Robert Ford's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]