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	Donald Davie, 73, Poet and Literary Critic, Dies - New York Times
		Davie regarded himself primarily as a poet, and in the 1950's became associated with the writers Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis in the so-called Movement in poetry in postwar Britain.
		Davie eventually became disillusioned with the work of Larkin, and once wrote that the more famous poets who made up the Movement had been renowned not just for their talents, but also because "they fed our national wish to be a tight little island unto ourselves." But he never stopped writing poetry himself; Mr.
		Donald Alfred Davie was born in Yorkshire in 1922, the son of a schoolmistress and a shopkeeper.
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	Michael Schmidt and Donald Davie
		Davie, of course, is frequently mentioned, and perhaps that’s why I browsed in his book while photocopying a tax return form in the library.
		Davie’s strength, most noticeably, is in his interests being well beyond what one comes despairingly to think of as “literary” - for him, poems are for use, the poet’s role “civic” and “honourable”.
		Davie talks of “the hard bright surfaces which Pound’s language, when he is in control, presents to us as a sequence of images, each sharp-edged and distinct”; an attractive analogy between his verse and metal, or medals, something cast.
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	Donald Davie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donald Alfred Davie (July 17, 1922—September 18, 1995) was an English poet and critic.
		Davie's criticism and poetry are both characterized by his interest in both modernist and pre-modernist techniques.
		Much of Davie's poetry has been compared to that of the traditionalist Philip Larkin, but other works are more influenced by Ezra Pound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Davie (209 words)

	Donald Davie Biography Summary
		Donald Davie was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, to George Clarke and Alice Sugden Davie, received his early education at Barnsley Holgate Grammar School, and spent his boyhood in "the industrially ravaged landscape," as he called it, of the West Riding....
		Davie was born in Barnsley, and served in the Navy...
		LONDON -- Donald Davie, a poet, literary critic and translator known for his technical refinement and his elucidations of modernist verse, died Monday in a hospital in Exeter, southwest England, his family said.
	www.bookrags.com /Donald_Davie (268 words)

	CPR - Donald Davie: In the Stopping Train by Paul Lake
		Donald warmly welcomed the guest, but as the class progressed and she continued to treat every poem with sneering condescension or disdain, he appeared almost visibly distressed.
		Davie’s temporary cage is the stopping train, which serves, among other things, as a metaphor for his life’s journey and the biological process of aging.
		Davie’s poem describes a sort of dark night of the soul for the Christian poet, who, for lack of a better term, is undergoing a mid-life crisis.
	www.cprw.com /Lake/davie.htm (3200 words)

	310dessay2.html
		As I read the poems of Philip Larkin and Donald Davie, their attitude of disappointment with modern life and their blunt manner in writing stand out, causing the two poets to hold a common theme and therefore a common bond.
		Larkin and Davie each say what they feel and mean what they say, hoping that they will reach someone in the audience of readers who will do something to make changes in the world.
		Davie, on the opposing hand, states “Will he never again look into the source of light/Aquiline, but fly/Always out of the sun” (lines 54-56) in his poem “With the Grain,” when warning his readers of danger.
	www.msu.edu /~hendri43/310dessay2.html (2183 words)

	'Donald Davie and Boris Pasternak: Essex and Russia' Angela Livingstone - Victoria and Albert Museum
		This note is not about Donald Davie's place as a poet in twentieth-century English poetry, or the influence on readers and scholars of his concern with 'purity of diction' and 'articulate energy' (titles of two of his books).
		True, the Davie poem is about people desiring the deer and the stillness, while in Pasternak's the deer is vividly present, enchanting (Orpheus-like) everything around it, and there are no people, only a sort of edgeless essence of them in the behaviour of trees, flowers and a stream.
		Donald Davie, on the contrary, writes about a human wish for something not obtained: that same perfection of the natural through the stillness of the deer.
	www.vam.ac.uk /activ_events/adult_resources/memory_maps/contemp_writing/poetry/donald_davie (1151 words)

	The Psalms in English
		Davie blames ‘the romantic assumption that the translation of ancient texts was a task too servile for the true poet to stoop to.’
		As Davie's anthology shows, the excellent verse versions of eighteenth century poets such as Isaac Watts, Christopher Smart and Charles Wesley grew out of live engagement with texts and a notion that infinite readings of Holy Scripture were both possible and desirable, In turn these translators, inherited a tradition which began in Tudor times.
		Davie's choice of translators is similarly wide and inclusive and he is aware of the various uses psalms are put to now, which include silent reading, public reading as part of Scripture, corporate reading aloud, and singing to Anglican chant.
	www.tyndale.org /TSJ/5/davies.html (1676 words)

	Treny. The Laments of Kochanowski: SR, Month 2003
		In his foreword to this edition, the late Donald Davie decries the lack of a natural interest in Kochanowski, saying that his status as a canonical figure in Polish poetry "commend[s] him less, now when ‘the canon' is widely taken to be of its nature an arbitrary and oppressive institution" (xii).
		However, Davie asserts that "translation becomes an art, and a work of imagination and learning, only when the translator undertakes to bridge the gap, not just between linguistic cultures but also over centuries, between historical periods" (xii).
		In what Davie calls a "momentous" translation, we see Czerniawski "continually negotiating between what is strange in Kochanowski and what is familiar" (xiv), revealing to us "translation as an imaginative act" (xiv).
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/103/231clancy.html (2200 words)

	To Scorch or Freeze : Poems about the Sacred (Phoenix Poets Series) - PowerBookSearch!
		Davie attempts a reconciliation between the evangelist irrationality he satirizes in earlier poems and his own deeply felt religious faith.
		Davie speculates on philosophical and religious themes for our times, using the Psalms as his base; and like the Psalms his poems are full of both question and declaration.
		Donald Davie, professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University, resides in Devon, England.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0226137554.html (403 words)

	Review: Collected Poems by Donald Davie \| Review \| guardian.co.uk Books
		Donald Davie's new Collected Poems is the fullest so far; it is an illuminating record of the poet's range.
		There is no substitute for the record, and Davie's editor has performed a service by assembling so full a file, by reprinting the poet's own notes from the 1972 edition, and adding a handful of informative passages from his autobiography, These the Companions.
		There Davie hears the voice of Hardy denouncing a "levelled, levelling culture" in which his elegies of 1912-13 would be inaudible.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,737355,00.html (1047 words)

	PN Review Online - DONALD DAVIE AND TWO WAYS OUT OF WHITMAN
		In coming to America, Davie sought poetry that was distinctly American, and he made it his project to trace a vital tradition from Walt Whitman through Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams (the need to bypass T.S. Eliot is presupposed) to the Black Mountains and Ed Dorn.
		Davie writes, 'I suspect that no American ear can register this as off-key, simply because so much American literature has been committed to recovering Adam's innocence', yet this American ear (mine) registered it even then, in the year this review was published, sitting, as a Stegner Fellow, in Davie's classroom at Stanford.
		From Davie's point of view, 'to proceed by excited cumulative catalogue is almost to admit defeat, spattering the target instead of aiming for the bull' (p.
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	poetrymagazines.org.uk - Donald Davie and British Poetry
		Davie once said, in a Poetry Book Society Bulletin: ‘From most points of view I would like to have written one or two long poems instead of the poems I’ve collected and called Events and Wisdoms.
		Davie has claimed that, while it’s set in a foreign country and in a past age, ‘it can be seen to come out of England in the 1950s’.
		If I have understood him, Davie is interestingly replacing the spatial, geographical metaphor of Dante’s journey, down into the ‘bowels’ of the earth and up the ‘mountain’ of Purgatory, by a metaphor of level flight over the surface of the earth, as appropriate to the exploration of a world dispossessed now of Christian meaning.
	www.poetrymagazines.org.uk /magazine/record.asp?id=4571 (2149 words)

	Wilmer Interviews John Peck
		Donald Davie’s self-renewing colloquy with Pound, from the vantage of an Anglo-Wintersian poetics, certainly suggests that the instigations go on working away.
		Davie is the most interesting because the least obviously indebted at first glance.
		Davie, in his essay on Shagbark, contrasts your emphasis on wood with Pound’s on stone.
	www.nd.edu /~ndr/issues/ndr14/wilmer/peckinterview.html (3294 words)

	Amazon.ca: Donald Davie: A Checklist of His Writings, 1946-1988: Books: Stuart T. Wright,Stuart Wright (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This annotated bibliography provides the first comprehensive listing of the works of Donald Davie, an internationally known British poet and critic who has become a part of America's academic and literary scene.
		Interviews with Davie and works containing his published comments are included.
		This annotated checklist will be of interest to Davie's readers and to scholars of contemporary criticism and poetry.
	www.amazon.ca /Donald-Davie-Checklist-Writings-1946-1988/dp/031327701X (281 words)

	Davie, Donald: Collected Poems
		Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s.
		"[Davie's poems] are on the quiet side, often casual and musing in mood and tone; determined to resist large gestures of assent or denial.
		"Donald Davie's Collected Poems does more than mark the culmination of one of the most distinguished careers in post-war British poetry; it is the autobiographical journey of a living poet at the height of his creative powers and the mastery of his craft.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/7064.ctl (242 words)

	SCOLAR Learning Environment
		Davie was a literary critic and most of his criticism has a bearing on his poetry.
		Davie thought this a kind of manifesto for the Movement, and it certainly says a lot about his own early verse.
		Donald Davie and the Responsibilities of Literature, Manchester, 1983 [828 DAV/D].
	www.rhul.ac.uk /scolar/en2305/davie.html (440 words)

	poetrymagazines.org.uk - Interview with Donald Davie
		As the interview makes clear, Davie chose the occasion to express his strong objections to the way in which recent poetry from that part of the world had been sprung on the English readership.
		It was Davie’s interest in Polish poetry that drew my attention to him many years ago.
		AC: Donald Davie, we think of you mainly as a poet, literary critic and theorist of literature, as well as a distinguished academic.
	www.poetrymagazines.org.uk /magazine/record.asp?id=12530 (1919 words)

	hallberg
		I have suggested that, despite his polemics on behalf of rightist attitudes, Davie is deeply committed to the liberalism of his generation of intellectuals.
		In far better poems, Davie shows what I take to be a deeper allegiance, one that rests neither on his ideological beliefs nor on his class origins
		Davie is often most deeply political when he seems to be least so.
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v8/v8n3.hallberg.html (390 words)

	Carcanet Press - Review of Donald Davie
		Donald Davie's preference was to be known as a Dissentient Voice.
		It was only natural, Davie maintains, for the Unitarian betrayers of orthodoxy to move on to treasonable support for the independence of the American colonies.
		But still they make you feel Davie was right in believing he carried a torch for the English language, that he was doing good work to keep the poet's medium 'crisp, supple, and responsible'.
	www.carcanet.co.uk /cgi-bin/scribe?showdoc=91;doctype=review (877 words)

	Vanderbilt University Press - books
		Donald’s handwritten poems are reproduced both in facsimile and in type.
		Donald Davie is widely read in Britain and the United States by those who find the tensions of deep and complex emotion most effective in poetry when expressed with discipline and restraint.
		“Donald Davie is one of the most important British poets of the second half of the twentieth century, and A Garland of Many Years is his most personal and richest book.
	www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com /bookdetail.asp?book_id=4007 (521 words)

	Davie, Donald Alfred - MSN Encarta
		Davie, Donald Alfred (1922-1995), English poet, critic, and translator.
		Davie was born in Yorkshire, and educated at St Catharine's College,...
		Old Age: Hearing one saga, we enact the next.
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		Davie, despite his crankiness in some areas, at least announced to the stiff-necked English p[oetry crowd that there was something happening elsewhere.
		The position that Davie took, which befuddled nearly everyone, was an advocacy of the value of irony, a position which he articulated based in part on some writings by Thomas Mann....
		Donald Davidson, and I mean Davidson, the Fugitive and the Agrarian of the 1920s and 30s who went on living for decades--was such a fascist that when admiring his poems one has that awful feeling as if one were admiring Hitler's water colors.
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/documents/obits/davie (1848 words)

	Jacket 19 - Jacques Khalip reviews Collected Poems by Donald Davie
		In this sense, Davie has always seemed to be a poet working in the very high art of his eighteenth-century forebears (Powell remarks on Davie’s early piece ‘Homage to William Cowper’ where he himself comes clean as ‘A pasticheur of late-Augustan styles’).
		Davie’s art parries with a sharpness that carefully assaults and damages, and although he isn’t entirely free of hectoring and philosophical assaults (see the wonderful late piece ‘Three Pastors in Berlin’), his arguments prefer to observe rather than be absorbed by more ominous depths:
		Davie is also most extraordinary in those poems where the timbre of his writing is softened, the lines delicate and suffused by beauties not entirely (nor immediately) exposed to immediate scrutiny:
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	Amazon.com: "Donald Davie": Key Phrase page
		Ted Hughes dwells on Shakespeare, Thom Gunn on the sixteenth century, Donald Davie on the eighteenth.
		Donald Davie, who spent much of the last twenty years of his life reinterpreting English literature in terms of a cultural 66...
		Donald Davie like- wise worried in his poem `Standings' (1988) that `the Albion of William Blake' had fragmented into a `tessellation' of...
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	The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England - Cambridge University Press
		$34.99 (Z) Donald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets.
		These are poems which have been put to the text of experience by a wider public than that generally envisaged by literary criticism, and have been kept alive by congregations in every generation.
		Davie's study of the eighteenth-century hymn and metrical psalm brings to light a body of literature forgotten as poetry: work by Charles Wesley and Christopher Smart, Isaac Watts and William Cowper, together with several poets unjustly neglected, such as the mysterious John Byron.
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521039568 (185 words)

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	Davie,Donald Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		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.
		Obsessed with the tonalities and vernacular of language, Davie works in the mediums of essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation, epistle, eclogue, and...
		It has grown naturally out of Donald Davie's immediate involvement with new writing as a poet, reviewer, teacher, and reader.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Davie,Donald (599 words)

	Jacket 28 - October 2005 - Kenneth Cox: Donald Davie’s History
		Donald Davie, Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960–1988.
		Davie includes however some recent revaluations of poems written before his stated terminus a quo.
		Davie’s essay on Edward Thomas calls for special mention. It considers the poetry damaged by the deficiencies of Thomas’s education: The damage.
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