Collected Poems

by Donald Davie

Book Overview

Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s. Taken together, the poems display that reverence for the distinctive qualities of the English language which has earned him a name as one of Britain's finest living poets.

"Davie's voice--judgemental, ironic, epigrammatic, humorous, self-lacerating--speaks always with reference to an unhuman perpendicular standard that itself goes unquestioned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226137619
• ISBN13: 9780226137612
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"