1978, hardcover edition, Oxford University Press, NY. 152 pages. B&W photos. Well known poet, Donald Davie, a superb literary critic, first presented the ideas in this book at Cambridge as a series of Clark Lectures in 1976. Considers such poets as Watts, Wesley, and Blake, as well as novelists Gaskell, Eliot, and D.H. Lawrence. Scholarly, readable.

A Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930 (Oxford Core Linguistics)

Literature & Fiction

Davie Comp, Andrew Mellon Professor in Humanities & English Donald

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

Under Briggflatts

Poetry

Carcanet Press

To Scorch or Freeze

Collected Poems

"Purity of Diction in English Verse" (1952) explains how the vocabulary choice of late 18th-century writers like Cowper, Goldsmith and Dr Johnson gave them a force and moral value different from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. "Articulate Energy" examines the major theories of how syntax - the basic building blocks of language - functions in poetry, using examples from Byron and Eliot, Pope and Pound, Sidney and Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, Paul Valery and W.B. Yeats. Davie draws on his experience as a poet and a critic. The final chapters explore what is meant by "modern poetry" and why the greatest poetry must always "reek of humanity".

Purity of Diction in English Verse (Lives & Letters)

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