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Collected Poems of Yvor Winters more books like this

by Yvor Winters, Donald Davie (Designer)

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The Lincoln Psalter more books like this

by Gordon Jackson, MB, Donald Davie, Carcanet Press (Creator)

This is a translation of the Lincoln Psalter.

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Penguin modern poets. Vol. 7, Donald Davie, Samuel Menashe, Allen Curnow

Penguin modern poets. Vol. 7, Donald Davie, Samuel Menashe, Allen Curnow more books like this

by Donald Davie, Samuel Menashe, Allen Curnow

This is the sixth in a series which aims to show the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. It offers representative poems of three poets, Samuel Menashe, Allan Curnow and Donald Davie, who chose the poems themselves.

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To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred

To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred more books like this

by Donald Davie

Davie's translation and imitation of the Psalms of David is an exploration of faith.

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Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain, 1960-1988

Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain, 1960-1988 more books like this

by Donald Davie

Under Briggflatts is a history of the last thirty years of British poetry with necessary excursions into other areas: criticism, philosophy, translation, and non-British English poetries. It has grown naturally out of Donald Davie's immediate involvement with new writing as a poet, reviewer, teacher and reader.

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The Oxford Book of Christian Verse

The Oxford Book of Christian Verse more books like this

by Donald Davie (Editor)

What is meant by 'Christian' verse? What must there be in a passage of verse that gives us the right to call it 'Christian'? These are the questions discussed in Professor Davie's illuminating introduction and answered implicitly on every page of his collection of over 260 poems. This well-loved anthology embraces everything from the Anglo-Saxon ...

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A Garland of Many Years

A Garland of Many Years more books like this

by Donald Davie, Doreen Davie (Photographer), Vereen Bell (Preface by)

Because these poems do not idealize love and marriage, they may raise eyebrows as readers examine the various expressions through which British poet Donald Davie identifies the essence of true love. The poems' strength lies in their honesty and intimacy and in the openness to the pain and self-understanding that both ardor and conflict can produce ...

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Donald Davie Collected Poems

Donald Davie Collected Poems more books like this

by Donald Davie, Neil Powell (Editor)

Donald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms. His passion is for our common language, its registers and tonalities.

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A Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930 more books like this

by Donald Davie

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Selected Poems more books like this

by Donald Davie

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Ezra Pound more books like this

by Donald Davie

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Thomas Hardy and British poetry more books like this

by Donald Davie

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With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry

With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry more books like this

by Donald Davie

First published in 1973 as "Thomas Hardy and British Poetry", this book then represented a challenge to critical orthodoxy. It modified the image of Hardy the nostalgic countryman with that of Hardy the Victorian engineer of language. It also suggested that, far from being a minor poet, Hardy had been a major influence on British poetry in the ...

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Russian literature and modern English fiction; a collection of critical essays. more books like this

by Donald Davie (Editor)

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Shires more books like this

by Donald Davie

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Articulate Energy: An Inquiry Into the Syntax of English Poetry more books like this

by Donald Davie

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A Travelling Man: Eighteenth Century Essays

A Travelling Man: Eighteenth Century Essays more books like this

by Donald Davie

Donald Davie was a great critic of the 18th century, its literature, its religion and politics, its culture in the broadest sense, because he took his creative bearings from it. This is what makes him such an unusual poet; and this is why, when he writes about Berkeley, or Swift, or Goldsmith, Smart, Cowper, Doctor Johnson, the Augustan Lyric, the ...

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The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England

The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England more books like this

by Donald Davie

Donald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets. His career has been marked by a series of challenging critical interventions. The eighteenth century is the great age of the English hymn though these powerful and popular texts have been marginalized in the formation of the conventional literary canon. ...

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Collected poems, 1950-1970. - more books like this

by Donald Davie

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Two Ways Out of Whitman: American Essays

Two Ways Out of Whitman: American Essays more books like this

by Donald Davie

This new collection of essays on American poetry by Donald Davie (1922-1995) displays again 'the scale and range' of one of the great 'understanders' of poetry of our century, here fulfilling his chosen role as bridge-builder between poets, poetries and cultures. Something distinctively American begins with Whitman, and Davie takes his bearings ...

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Modernist Essays: Yeats, Pound, Eliot more books like this

by Donald Davie, Clive Wilmer (Editor)

Donald Davie mapped some of the most dependable critical routes into the heart Modernism - American, English, Irish and Continental. This book includes his most important essays on the subject, starting with his exemplary definition of Modernism in The Poet in the Imaginary Museum (1957) and following on with essays from five decades, about Eliot, ...

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On Modern poetry : essays presented to Donald Davie more books like this

by Vereen M. Bell, Laurence Lerner, Donald Davie

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In the Shopping Train and Other Poems more books like this

by Donald Davie

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Donald Davie: Poems and Melodramas more books like this

by Donald Davie

Shortly before his death in 1995, Donald Davie sent his publisher the poem, "Our Father". This ten-part meditation broke a seven-year poetic silence. This book contains a body of poems which extend the concerns of his late years, concerns with the "sacred", with England and with our age.

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The Poet in the Imaginary Museum: Essays of Two Decades more books like this

by Donald Davie, Barry Alpert (Editor)

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