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Two ways out of Whitman

Author: Donald Davie; Doreen Davie
Publisher: Manchester : Carcanet, 2000.
Series: Carcanet lives & letters.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Something distinctively American begins with Walt Whitman, and Donald Davie (1922-1995) takes bearings from the nineteenth-century poet whose long shadow falls so decisively on the Modernists and their successors. The radical difference of Whitman's approach, his copiousness, his opened forms, challenge any reader of American poetry." "Davie displays again his scale and range as one of the 'understanders' of poetry  Read more...
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Davie, Donald.
Two ways out of Whitman.
Manchester : Carcanet, 2000
(OCoLC)647590681
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].

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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  Read more...

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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 Read more...

 
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schema:reviewBody""Something distinctively American begins with Walt Whitman, and Donald Davie (1922-1995) takes bearings from the nineteenth-century poet whose long shadow falls so decisively on the Modernists and their successors. The radical difference of Whitman's approach, his copiousness, his opened forms, challenge any reader of American poetry." "Davie displays again his scale and range as one of the 'understanders' of poetry of our century, fulfilling his chosen role as bridge-builder between poets, poetries and cultures. Four decades' engagement with American poetry comprise this book. It is not a static argument; changes in his own perspectives illuminate his complex subjects."--BOOK JACKET."
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