Donald Davie (1922–1995)
Author of The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse
About the Author
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, show more 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) show less
Image credit: Old clipping of Donald Davie, photographer unknown
Works by Donald Davie
A Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930 (The Clark Lectures ; 1976) (1978) 22 copies
Ezra Pound: Sculptor 1 copy
Southern Review 1 copy
Seeing Her Leave 1 copy
Varieties of Poetic Syntax 1 copy
In the Stopping Train 1 copy
The Poems of Doctor Zhivago 1 copy
Associated Works
Vort #1, Fall 1972 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Davie, Donald Alfred
- Birthdate
- 1922-07-17
- Date of death
- 1995-09-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Colchester, Essex, England, UK
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Education
- Barnsley Hogate High School
University of Cambridge (St Catharine's College) - Occupations
- poet
literary critic
professor - Organizations
- University of Essex
Stanford University
Vanderbilt University
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