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Donald Davie, Neil Powell

Collected Poems

English · Hardback

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Klappentext Political and protesting, these poems explore concepts of modernity, English identity, and historicity. Influenced by the Russians and Ezra Pound, Davie reinterprets Modernism for a 1940s world. Obsessed with the tonalities and vernacular of language, Davie works in the mediums of essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation, epistle, eclogue, and other forms. Zusammenfassung Donald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation! essay-poem! love lyric! satire! translation (notably the Psalter)! epistle! eclogue and other forms. His passion is for our common language! its registers and tonalities.

Product details

Authors	Donald Davie
Assisted by	Neil Powell (Editor)
Publisher	External catalogue UK

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.05.2002

EAN	9781857545791
ISBN	978-1-85754-579-1
No. of pages	500
Dimensions	142 mm x 223 mm x 55 mm
Series	Poetry Pleiade Poetry Pleiade
Subjects	Fiction > Poetry, drama Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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