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Source: Purchase, Jan. 22, 1991 (DLC #95125).

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Poems about the Sacred: The result is a series of poems that speak of moral indignation and spiritual discovery without losing sight of the complexities of life in the modern world.

This volume explores how the vocabulary choice of late 18th-century writers gave them a different force and moral value from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. It also examines the major theories of how syntax functions in poetry, using examples from Shakespeare to Paul Valery.

To mark the centenary of Donald Davie's birth, Carcanet publishes a new Selected Poems edited by Michael Schmidt and introduced by Sinead Morrissey.

First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the 19th century.

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Davie returns to Thomas Hardy and his legacy on British poetry in these essays which explore both his impact on poetry and the ways in which British writers have extended and eluded the potent ghost of his influence.

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First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the 19th century.

First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the 18th century through to the 20th.

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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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.

Here Davie, a writer attuned to both the changes of the modern world and a living literary tradition, turns to the lapsed poetic practice of translation and imitation of the Psalms of David. The result is a series of poems that speak powerfully of moral indignation and spiritual discovery within the complex of modernity. "Few modern poets have managed to achieve Donald Davie's sense of human worth."--"Times Higher Educational Supplement

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.

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.