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Tag: Donald Davie

282. (W.B. Yeats)

I’d been intending to write up some thoughts on Yeats before the LRB review of Geoffrey Hill’s last book appeared, … More

Donald Davie, Yeats

241. (Davie, Auerbach, Arnold)

A friend of mine pointed out that semi-recent posts on decorum are a bit of a muddle and that I … More

decorum, Donald Davie, Erich Auerbach, Matthew Arnold, Platonism

223. (Emily Dickinson)

To begin with recapitulation and self-remonstration: poetry must, in F.H. Bradley’s persuasive formulation, get within the judgment the condition of … More

American Literature, American poetry, decorum, Donald Davie, Emily Dickinson, Poetry

221. (John Keats)

This post is the first in a series of evolving sketches on “decorum” in poetry; it leads into the next … More

decorum, Donald Davie, John Keats, Poetry, Romanticism

214. (T.S. Eliot)

When someone says that something possesses the quality of the literary, or refers to the literary or even artistic imagination, … More

Criticism, Donald Davie, T.S. Eliot, tact, the body

211. (Percy Shelley)

Shelley’s poetry has challenged some of the finest critics, and even Hazlitt, who stands opposed to Shelley’s most notable detractors, … More

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Poetry, Romanticism, Shelley, tact, the body

176. (Robert Burns)

It’s difficult to know what to do with Robert Burns, besides read and enjoy him, and take fortification from him; … More

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Robert Burns, Romanticism, Samuel Johnson, Scottish Literature, Thom Gunn, William Empson

144. (Philip Larkin)

[COMPLETE VERSION.]  A chief complaint against Larkin is the insularity, his reaction to modernism that confuses an affirmation of Hardy’s special … More

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin

113. (Ezra Pound)

Pound, whose faith in poetry as a force to make something happen was constant and remains invigorating, began his career … More

Donald Davie, Ezra Pound, modernist poetry, Poetry, T.S. Eliot

86. (Christopher Smart)

Donald Davie’s hand-annotated copy of Smart’s Song to David (e.d. J.B. Broadbent) is on my shelf; the annotations I might return to, … More

Christopher Smart, Donald Davie, original poetry, Poetry

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