Donald Davie (1922–1995)

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1. Ezra Pound

   Author of Guide to Kulchur (New Directions Paperbook, Ndp257), The translations of Ezra Pound, Selected Prose 1909-1965 (New Directions Paperbook)

2. C. S. Lewis

   Author of The Weight of Glory, Reflections on the Psalms, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

3. Hugh Kenner

   Author of The Pound Era, The invisible poet: T. S. Eliot

4. James Laughlin

   Author of Pound as Wuz: Essays and Lectures on Ezra Pound

5. William Willetts

   Author of CHINESE ART 1, Chinese Art 2

6. E. Fuller Torrey

   Author of The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths

7. Charles Williams

   Author of The Place of the Lion, The Descent of the Dove

8. William Empson

   Author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Structure of Complex Words

9. Charles Olson

   Author of Charles Olson and Ezra Pound: An Encounter at St. Elizabeths

10. Virgil

    Author of The Eclogues, Virgil in English

11. Charles Norman

    Author of Ezra Pound

12. Plato

    Author of The Laws, Early Socratic Dialogues

13. George Appleton

    Author of The Oxford Book of Prayer

14. Anthony Burgess

    Author of Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (Harvest Book, Hb 303)

15. Matthew Black

    Author of Peake's Commentary on the Bible

16. Thomas à Kempis

    Author of The Imitation of Christ

17. John Jenkins Espey

    Author of Ezra Pound's Mauberley: A Study in Composition

18. William K. Wimsatt

    Author of The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry

19. Edward Schillebeeckx

    Author of Jesus: An Experiment in Christology

20. Mary De Rachewiltz

    Author of Discretions