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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Davie, Donald. Two ways out of Whitman. Manchester : Carcanet, 2000 (OCoLC)647590681 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald Davie; Doreen Davie |
| ISBN: | 1857544609 9781857544602 |
| OCLC Number: | 43718599 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xii, 202 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Series Title: | Carcanet lives & letters. |
| Responsibility: | Donald Davie ; [edited with an introduction by Doreen Davie]. |
Abstract:
In this collection of essays on American poetry, edited by his widow, Donald Davie starts with Walt Whitman, displaying the poet's influence on the Modernists and their successors, covering such writers as Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Robert Pinsky.
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'Thew and sinew, as well as head and shoulders above anybody else from the post-Eliot and post-Empson generation, Davie is the best of our poet-critics. The scale and range of Davie's accomplishments as critic, as poet (Marvell's profound fluency, Pasternak's limpidity, Pound's audacity, Tennyson's epistolary ease, all bearing fruit, honestly grafted), and as poet-critic or (proud humility) 'practitioner': he has not had a rival.' Christopher Ricks Read more...
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