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1	Thomas Hardy and British poetry more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $198.31! \| first editions
2	The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse more books like this by Donald Davie (Editor) add to wishlist What is meant by 'Christian' verse? What must there be in a passage of verse thst 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.75! \| first editions
3	Collected Poems of Yvor Winters more books like this by Yvor Winters, Donald Davie (Designer) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $22.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Psalms in English more books like this by Anonymous, Donald Davie (Editor) add to wishlist This text is part of the "New Poets in Translation" series which offers verse translations of major works. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $97.00!
5	A Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930 more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Collected Poems more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s. Taken together, the poems display that reverence for the distinctive qualities of the English language which has earned him a name as one of Britain's finest living poets. "Davie's voice--judgemental, ironic, epigrammatic, humorous, self ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $20.50! \| first editions
7	The Oxford Book of Christian Verse more books like this by Donald Davie (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.38! \| SVS
8	Slavic Excursions: Essays on Russian and Polish Literature more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $2.15! new only from $22.53! \| first editions
9	Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist To mark his seventieth birthday, Continuum published some of the critical writings of the man whom the London Times hailed as, "the preeminent English poet-critic of our time". see all copies from $6.40! new only from $51.37! \| first editions
10	To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist Davie's translation and imitation of the Psalms of David is an exploration of faith. see all copies from $2.93! new only from $10.96! \| first editions
11	Ezra Pound more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
12	The late Augustans : longer poems of the later eighteenth century more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $2.21! first editions
13	Trying to Explain more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist An analysis of the major voices in the contemporary poetic traditions of England, Ireland, and America see all copies from $3.99! new only from $23.21!
14	Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain, 1960-1988 more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $21.55! new only from $21.95! \| first editions
15	Articulate Energy: An Inquiry Into the Syntax of English Poetry more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $18.97! new only from $110.62! \| first editions
16	Selected Poems more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $2.05! new only from $10.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	Russian literature and modern English fiction; a collection of critical essays. more books like this by Donald Davie (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.85! first editions
18	Purity of Diction in English Verse more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $8.40! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	A Garland of Many Years more books like this by Donald Davie, Doreen Davie (Photographer), Vereen Bell (Preface by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $35.79! \| SVS
20	Donald Davie Collected Poems more books like this by Donald Davie, Neil Powell (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $6.88! new only from $20.96! \| first editions
21	Shires more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22	Events and wisdoms. more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! first editions
23	In the Shopping Train and Other Poems more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $2.75! new only from $32.43! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist 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. ... see all copies from $34.12! new only from $35.83! \| SVS
25	Collected poems, 1950-1970. - more books like this by Donald Davie add to wishlist see all copies from $12.90! signed copies \| first editions

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