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Collected Poems of Yvor Winters more books like this

by Yvor Winters, Donald Davie (Designer)

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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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The Psalms in English

The Psalms in English more books like this

by Anonymous, Donald Davie (Editor)

This collection brings together English versions of the Psalms from the 16th century to contemporary times, and includes contributions from Wyatt, Shakespeare, Donne, Hardy, Kipling, Longfellow, and Pound, among many others.

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

by Donald Davie

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Ezra Pound more books like this

by Donald Davie

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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 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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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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Selected Poems more books like this

by Donald Davie

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

by Donald Davie

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Events and wisdoms. more books like this

by Donald Davie

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Purity of Diction in English Verse more books like this

by Donald Davie

"Purity of Diction in English Verse" (1952) explains how the vocabulary choice of late 18th-century writers like Cowper, Goldsmith and Dr Johnson gave them a force and moral value different from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. "Articulate Energy" examines the major theories of how syntax - the basic building blocks of language - functions in ...

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Shires more books like this

by Donald Davie

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Dissentient Voice: The Ward-Phillips Lectures for 1980 with Some Related Pieces more books like this

by Donald Davie

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

by Donald Davie

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

by Donald Davie, Barry Alpert (Editor)

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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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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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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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