| Donald Davie: Collected Poems Contributor(s): Davie, Donald (Author), Powell, Neil (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1857544064 ISBN-13: 9781857544060 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2002 Annotation: Political and protesting, these poems explore concepts of modernity, English identity, and historicity. Influenced by the Russians and Ezra Pound, Davie reinterprets Modernism for a 1940s world. Obsessed with the tonalities and vernacular of language, Davie works in the mediums of essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation, epistle, eclogue, and other forms. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821 |
| Series: Poetry Pleiade |
| Physical Information: 1.84" H x 5.26" W x 8.66" (1.78 lbs) 660 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |