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Douglas Dunn

Author of Elegies

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About the Author

Douglas Dunn was appointed Professor in the School of English at the University of St. Andrews in 1991.

Includes the names: Dunn Douglas, Dunn - Editor, ed. Douglas Dunn, ed. Dunn, Douglas, SELECTED BY DOUGLAS DUNN

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Works by Douglas Dunn

Elegies (1985) 122 copies, 2 reviews
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (1995) — Editor — 113 copies
The Essential Browning (1990) 75 copies
The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Verse (1992) 54 copies
Selected Poems: 1964-1983 (1986) 42 copies
Terry Street (1969) 34 copies, 1 review
Dante's Drum Kit (1993) 33 copies
Twentieth Century Scottish Poems (2000) — Editor — 33 copies
Northlight (1988) 32 copies
Scotland: An Anthology (1991) 30 copies
Secret Villages (1985) 21 copies
The Year's Afternoon (2000) 19 copies
The Noise of a Fly (2017) 17 copies
New Selected Poems: 1964-1999 (2003) 17 copies, 1 review
The donkey's ears (2000) 17 copies
Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry (2006) 15 copies
St. Kilda's Parliament (1981) 14 copies
Douglas Dunn: New and Selected Poems 1966-1988 (1989) 13 copies
Barbarians (1979) 11 copies
Love or Nothing (1974) 11 copies
Java Rules (2001) 9 copies
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1995) 8 copies
Poetry of Scotland (1979) 4 copies
The Happier Life (1972) 4 copies
The Cujo Cat Chronicles: Musings of a Mad Housecat (2011) 3 copies
Europa's Lover (1982) 3 copies
New poems : a P.E.N. anthology of contemporary poetry. 1972-73 (1973) 3 copies
Poll Tax: The Fiscal Fake (Counterblasts S.) (1990) 3 copies
A Rumoured City : New Poets from Hull (1982) 2 copies
Two Decades of Irish Writing: A Critical Anthology (1975) 2 copies
Signs of Bisbee 2 copies
Footnotes : six choreographers inscribe the page (2013) 2 copies
Under the Influence: Douglas Dunn on Philip Larkin (1987) 2 copies
Second Wind (2015) 2 copies
Dancer Out of Sight (2013) 2 copies
Backwaters (1969) 2 copies
Memory and Imagination (1987) 2 copies
Poetry Supplement (1979) 2 copies
The bagpiping people : selected short stories (2017) 1 copy
The Canoes 1 copy
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 5th Edition (PPVT-5) Complete Test Kit 1 copy
The Everything Sign Language Book 1 copy
Into the oceanic = Dhan chuan mhòr (1999) 1 copy
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Manual, 5th Edition & Form B (LM) 1 copy
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Manual Form A, 5th Edition (LM) 1 copy
Poetry Supplement Christmas'79 1 copy
Wyprowadzka z Terry Street i inne wiersze (1999) 1 copy
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 5th Edition form B (PPVT5) #1 1 copy
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 5th Edition form B (PPVT5) #2 1 copy
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 5th Edition form A (PPVT5) #1 1 copy
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 5th Edition form A (PPVT5) #2 1 copy
Dikt 1969-1985 (1999) 1 copy
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Associated Works

The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Contributor, some editions — 311 copies, 2 reviews
British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Contributor, some editions — 192 copies, 2 reviews
Emergency Kit (1996) — Contributor, some editions — 121 copies, 1 review
Acid Plaid: New Scottish Writing (1997) — Contributor — 45 copies
A Choice of Byron's Verse (1974) — Editor — 39 copies, 1 review
The Difficulties I.1 — Contributor — 1 copy

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5 reviews
Figgles606 reviews
Elegies by Douglas Dunn
Just beautiful. I nearly cried on the bus and train as I read these unsentimental effusions of grief. Poems that speak of how we go one after someone we love has died in a world both unchanged and permanently changed. I did not know that the late 20th century had produced such poetic greatness. Thanks to the Faber and Faber poetry diaries, where I discovered Douglas Dunn, I am broadening my horizons.
Oct 26, 20181 other review
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adrianburke319 reviews
New Selected Poems, 1964-2000: 1964-1999 by Douglas Dunn
I've had this book of his on my shelf for quite a while now and never pulled it down to go through. Now I have and I am reading it with a lot of pleasure. The Terry Street section coming from the mid 1960s is almost prophetic in its account of an England that has worn out its empire trappings and is just rusting away in a corner of the world. What has changed?
Oct 24, 2020 (Edited)
thenumeraltwo124 reviews
Elegies by Douglas Dunn
> Her pleasure whispered through a much-kissed smile.

A heartbreaking gift for an opening line in this collection written after the death of his wife. Grief told with poetic incompleteness
Feb 10, 20201 other review
shijin22 reviews
Terry Street by Douglas Dunn
F/F First US Edition
Apr 16, 2016

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Costa Book Awards
Somerset Maugham Award
Hawthornden Prize
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
T. S. Eliot Prize

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