Donald Davie (1922–1995)
Forfatter af The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse
Om forfatteren
Donald Davie was at the forefront of the poetic school of the 1950s known as the Movement. The group's aesthetic was characterized by simplicity, in contrast to the extravagant rhetoric and stylistic excesses that they felt marked neoromantic poetic trends. Unlike other Movement poets, though, vis mere Davie generally eschews a casual tenor or informal voice, resorting instead to a more traditional prosody and affirming the influence of late Augustan poets. Davie's most durable contribution to poetic debates of the period was a work of literary criticism called Purity of Diction in English Verse (1952). The laws of poetic syntax, he argues, are as momentous as the laws of human society and should be appreciated equally. Davie was born in Barnsley, a place that figures gloomily in much of his work. He has taught at universities in both Great Britain and the United States. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Old clipping of Donald Davie, photographer unknown
Værker af Donald Davie
A Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930 (The Clark Lectures ; 1976) (1978) 22 eksemplarer
Church, Chapel and the Unitarian Conspiracy: Essays in Dissent (Lives & Letters) (1995) 2 eksemplarer
With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry (Lives & Letters) (1998) 1 eksemplar
Ezra Pound: Sculptor 1 eksemplar
Southern Review 1 eksemplar
Seeing Her Leave 1 eksemplar
Varieties of Poetic Syntax 1 eksemplar
In the Stopping Train 1 eksemplar
The Poems of Doctor Zhivago 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Bidragyder — 250 eksemplarer
Vort #1, Fall 1972 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Davie, Donald Alfred
- Fødselsdato
- 1922-07-17
- Dødsdag
- 1995-09-18
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Colchester, Essex, England, UK
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Uddannelse
- Barnsley Hogate High School
University of Cambridge (St Catharine's College) - Erhverv
- poet
literary critic
professor - Organisationer
- University of Essex
Stanford University
Vanderbilt University
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