Winfield Townley Scott (1910 – 1968) was an American poet, critic and diarist. He penned an important early appreciation of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft "His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Howard Phillips Lovecraft" (1944). Another essay on Lovecraft, "Lovecraft as a Poet," first appeared in "Rhode Island on Lovecraft" (1945) and was reprinted elsewhere in a revised version as "A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet." He corresponded with Lovecraft, and in 1950, advised J. Warren Thomas about a biographical thesis. He was editor of The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin. Scott was primarily known for his journals. He published these as A Dirty Hand (1958). He corresponded with Ruth Lechlitner. Several of his poems appear in the book Don’t Forget to Fly an anthology (that includes many other famous works) collected by Paul B. Janeczko, Bradbury Press, published in 1981.
His poem "Sprague Smith Studio," titled after the MacDowell studio of the same name, was published in the 1966 issue of Poetry magazine.
