Robert Duer Claydon Finch (May 14, 1900 – June 11, 1995) was a Canadian poet and academic.
He twice won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, for his poetry.
[1] Born in Freeport, Long Island, New York, Finch was educated at the University of Toronto and the Sorbonne.
It adds: "His work, deeply imbued with the classical tradition, is characterized by an intense care for form and graced by a rare subtlety and elegance.
"[3] In 1936, Finch published eleven poems in the "milestone selection of modernist Canadian verse," New Provinces, edited by F.R.