An analysis of the life and work of the American poet provides insight into the origins of his controversial social and political views and his relation to twentieth-century literature

Ezra Pound

Literature & Fiction

Davie, Donald

Poetry

Penguin??Books

Osip Mandelshtam is one of the greatest Russian poets of the early 20th century. This extensively revised and augmented edition features James Greene's acclaimed translations of Mandelshtam's poetry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Selected Poems (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Mandelstam, Osip

Green, James

Mandelshtam, Nadezhda

Penguin Classics

A political explanation of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings accompanies an analysis of Hardy's poetic technique and a look at his scientific humanism which survives in socialist and liberal policies today

Thomas Hardy and British Poetry

History

Oxford University Press

Collected poems, 1950-1970

In the stopping train & other poems

An analysis of the life and work of the American poet provides insight into the origins of his controversial social and political views and his relation to twentieth-century literature

History & Criticism

Univ of Chicago Pr

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

To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred (Phoenix Poets)

University of Chicago Press

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

Under Briggflatts is a history of the last thirty years of British poetry with necessary excursions into other areas: criticism, philosophy, translation, and non-British English poetries. It has grown naturally out of Donald Davie's immediate involvement with new writing as a poet, reviewer, teacher, and reader. He has reassessed the writers who have most engaged his attention, revised his reviews, and supplemented earlier material with much that is new. Under Briggflatts provides a narrative that is remarkable in scope and generous in tone. By combining close readings of specific poems and more general considerations of style, form, and context, Davie's account is characteristically elegant, precise, and uncompromising. Under Briggflatts is organized in three large chapters, one devoted to each decade. In the 1960s, Davie pays particular attention to the work of Austin Clarke, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman McCaig, Keith Douglas, Edwin Muir, Basil Bunting (the gurus whose prose writings helped catalyze the traumatic events of 1968), Elaine Feinstein, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Philip Larkin, Charles Tomlinson, Thomas Kinsella, and Ted Hughes. The second chapter follows these figures into the new decade and explores the work of (among others) Thom Gunn, C. H. Sisson, R. S. Thomas, John Betjeman, and such themes as women's poetry, translation, poetic theory, and the later impact of T. S. Eliot and of Edward Thomas. Perhaps the most controversial chapter is the third, in which David—without abandoning the poets already introduced—assesses Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison, and Seamus Heaney, and looks too at the recovery of Ivor Gurney's poems, at Ted Hughes as Laureate, the posthumous work of Sylvia Townsend Warner, the burgeoning Hardy industry, and the critical writings of Kenneth Cox.

Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain, 1960-1988

Slavic Excursions: Essays on Russian and Polish Literature

Essays & Correspondence

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Ezra Pound

Selected Poems (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Thomas Hardy and British Poetry

Collected poems, 1950-1970

In the stopping train & other poems

Ezra Pound

To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred (Phoenix Poets)

To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred (Phoenix Poets)

Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain, 1960-1988

Slavic Excursions: Essays on Russian and Polish Literature