Donald Davie

She considered this book one of the two prime achievements of her writing life. It was the last volume that she published containing all new material. It was listed by the National Book League

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...

Yvor Winters looked on The Last Man and Other Verses as having begun ED 's mastery of her new subject-matter. In 1936 he wrote of her as increasingly conscious of social injustice, of the...

In Children of WealthDonald Davie found audible a desperation, barely under control.

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...

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...

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). Her career spanned much of the twentieth...

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...

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. Other...

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...

The year before her death, ED issued her Collected Poems, edited by Donald Davie .

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 Allen Ginsburg...