Donald Davie's first two prose books (1952, 1955), available now in one volume with a new foreword, set the agenda for "The Movement" and shaped the critical approach of two generations of readers and teachers of poetry. They have also proven of valu...

Donald Davie mapped some of the most dependable critical routes into the heart Modernism – American, English, Irish and Continental. This book includes his most important essays on the subject, starting with his exemplary definition of "Modernism in...

Donald Davie was, par excellence, the engaged poet of our time. His poems do not pre-empt us in the way that protest or political poetry does, though he protests and is political. He was a poet of English perspectives refracted through historical med...

This new collection of essays on American poetry by Donald Davie (1922-1995) displays again "the scale and range" of one of the great "understanders" of poetry of our century, here fulfilling his chosen role as bridge-builder between poets, poetries...

In "Thomas Hardy and British Poetry" (1972) Donald David identified how deep and durable a mark the Dorset poet left on the English sensibility. Hardy's formal approach and his distinctive tonalities have – for better or worse – affected the choices...

This selection from the first thirty years of Donald Davie's poetry reveals an impassioned spirit advancing from Augustan reserve towards the treacherous, rewarding risks of modernism. As a critic, Helen Vendler writes, "he has drawn a map of moderni...

Donald Davie is a poet-critic: his admirable essays are free of jargon, full of the clarity and insight of a major practitioner of the poetic art. His writing is in every sense refreshing: a pleasure to read and an inspiration to re-read the writers...