qtd. in
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
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Donald Davie
Standard Name: Davie, Donald
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Daryush | Davie
's introduction makes the case for Daryush as a poet of major importance. He opens, When an unprejudiced literary history of our century comes to be written, our failure to recognize Elizabeth Daryush will... |
| Literary responses | Laura Riding | She considered this book one of the two prime achievements of her writing life. |
| Literary responses | Philip Larkin | Ten years after his first collection appeared, this one at last brought PL
admiration and respect. The Times Literary Supplement called him a poet of quite exceptional importance, and The Times picked the volume as... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Daryush | Yvor Winters
looked on The Last Man and Other Verses as having begun ED
's mastery of her new subject-matter. Davie, Donald, and Elizabeth Daryush. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Carcanet New Press, 1976, pp. 13-23. 16 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Daryush | In Children of WealthDonald Davie
found audible a desperation, barely under control. Davie, Donald, and Elizabeth Daryush. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Carcanet New Press, 1976, pp. 13-23. 17 |
| Occupation | Elaine Feinstein | The writer Donald Davie
, who was appointed the first Chair of Comparative Literature at Essex
, was instrumental in Feinstein's appointment to a lectureship there. Within a few years, after publishing her first slim... |
| Author summary | Elizabeth Daryush | ED
is in the unusual position of being a poet laureate's daughter (a grievous disadvantage for any poet to labour under, as Donald Davie
put it). Davie, Donald, and Elizabeth Daryush. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Carcanet New Press, 1976, pp. 13-23. 20 |
| Reception | Elaine Feinstein | This little book probably got only review, a generous one by Donald Davie
in the Wivenhoe Park Review. But the poet Tom Pickard noticed it and invited the author to give a reading, which... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Jennings | In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove
welcomed EJ
as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2705 (4 December 1953): 778 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Daryush | She opens and closes the collection with two poems printed in italics. Her list of titles provides their opening words: an unnumbered poem placed before number one (from the first Verses) and another unnumbered... |
| Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | This opportunity arose from her guest editing an issue of Cambridge Opinion while the regular editors were sitting exams, in an issue she called The Writer out of Society. She had discovered |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Daryush | The year before her death, ED
issued her Collected Poems, edited by Donald Davie
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 55 |
Timeline
14 January 1956: D. J. Enright's anthology Poets of the 1950s...
Writing climate item
14 January 1956
D. J. Enright
's anthology Poets of the 1950s brought together work by eight poets generally taken to be leading voices in the recently-catagorized, modern but anti-modernist Movement.
Collini, Stefan. “Self-Positioning”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 12, 25 June 2009, pp. 17-19. 17
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Texts
Daryush, Elizabeth, and Donald Davie. Collected Poems. Carcanet New Press, 1976.
Davie, Donald, and Elizabeth Daryush. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Carcanet New Press, 1976, pp. 13-23.