Robert Ford (poet)

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This article is about an poet, translator and diplomat. For other people named Robert Ford, see Robert Ford.

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.

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  • 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)

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