Paul Potts

Paul Hugh Howard Potts, an English-born poet who lived in British Columbia in his youth, was the author of Dante Called You Beatrice (1960), a memoir of unrequited love.

Among Potts's literary friends were George Orwell and the English poet George Barker. Potts's memoir of Orwell, Don Quixote on a Bicycle, appeared in The London Magazine in 1957 and became a chapter of Dante Called You Beatrice. His 1948 essay The World of George Barker appeared in Poetry Quarterly.