To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred

by Donald Davie and Andrew Mellon Professor in Humanities & English Donald Davie Comp

Book Overview

Here Davie, a writer attuned to both the changes of the modern world and a living literary tradition, turns to the lapsed poetic practice of translation and imitation of the Psalms of David. The result is a series of poems that speak powerfully of moral indignation and spiritual discovery within the complex of modernity.

"Few modern poets have managed to achieve Donald Davie's sense of human worth."--Times Higher Educational Supplement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226137554
• ISBN13: 9780226137551
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.5"