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Donald Davie



Donald Davie's work featured in PN Review comprises two reports, 20 contributions of poetry, 38 articles, and seven reviews, over a period of 24 years. Also available are 16 reviews of Donald Davie's work and two interviews with Donald Davie.
Further Reading
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in Poetry Nation 1 (1973) Morning
Article in Poetry Nation 1 (1973) A Comment
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in Poetry Nation 2 (1974) From 'The Shires'
Subscribers only Review in Poetry Nation 2 (1974) The Varsity Match
Article in Poetry Nation 3 (1974) Austin Clarke and Padraic Fallon
Reviewed by Michael Edwards in Poetry Nation 3 (1974) on Donald Davie and British Poetry
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in Poetry Nation 5 (1975) Two Medallions
Subscribers only Article in Poetry Nation 5 (1975) The Poetry of Elizabeth Daryush
Subscribers only Article in Poetry Nation 4 (1975) Ezra Pound Abandons the English
Subscribers only Article in Poetry Nation 6 (1976) The Politics of an English Poet
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 1 (1977) Two Poems
Article in PN Review 1 (1977) Notes on Nonconformists
Subscribers only Reviewed by Blake Morrison in PN Review 1 (1977) on Davie's Pound
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 2 (1978) Letter from an Editor
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 3 (1978) On the Wrong Track
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 4 (1978) Winter's Talents
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 4 (1978) An Episode in the History of Candour
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 5 (1978) English and American in Briggflatts
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 6 (1979) Suburban Ebenezers
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 6 (1979) Solzhenitsyn's 'Prussian Nights'
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 7 (1979) The Poetry of Yvor Winters
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 9 (1979) Three for Watermusic
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 9 (1979) A Calvinist in Politics: Jack Clemo
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 9 (1979) Jeremy Hooker
Subscribers only Reviewed by Blake Morrison in PN Review 9 (1979) Davie's Poems
Subscribers only Reviewed by Clyde Binfield in PN Review 9 (1979) A Gathered Church
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 12 (1980) A Mug's Game?
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 14 (1980) Homage to Cowper
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 14 (1980) Siloam
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 15 (1980) F. W. Bateson - in memoriam
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 16 (1980) on Pan Literature Guides
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 18 (1981) A Day with the DNB
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 19 (1981) A Garland for Ronsard
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 20 (1981) Exacting Poetry
Subscribers only Reviewed by Andrew Waterman in PN Review 22 (1981) on Donald Davie's 'Trying to Explain'
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 25 (1982) Lorine Niedecker's 'Lake Superior'
Subscribers only Reviewed by Andrew Howdle in PN Review 25 (1982) on Donald Davie's 'Three for Water-Music'
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 27 (1982) 'Pastor Errante'
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 30 (1983) Mandelstam's Hope for the Best
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 30 (1983) Poets on Stilts: Yeats and some Contemporaries
Subscribers only Reviewed by Peter Robinson in PN Review 31 (1983) Donald Davie's 'Dissentient Voice'
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 34 (1983) Milosz: The Wartime Poems
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 35 (1984) Adrian Stokes Revisited
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 39 (1984) Two Modern Masters: Sisson and Milosz
Subscribers only Reviewed by Andrew Swarbrick in PN Review 40 (1984) on Donald Davie
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 46 (1985) Who are the Poundians, and What is it they do?
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 51 (1986) Northern Metres for Tony Harrison in Florida
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 54 (1987) Kenneth Cox's Criticism
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 55 (1987) Exercises upon the Psalter
Subscribers only Reviewed by Henry Gifford in PN Review 55 (1987) on Donald Davie
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 57 (1987) Poems
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 58 (1987) Response to Poetry Live
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 58 (1987) Four Poems
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 62 (1988) Two Poems
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 70 (1989) Chernobyl. A Disaster
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 70 (1989) Thom Gunn
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 70 (1989) on Various Art
Reviewed by Neil Powell in PN Review 72 (1990) on Donald Davie
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 74 (1990) The Poetry of the Metrical Psalm
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 75 (1990) Post-modernism, Craft, and the Market for Poetry
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 76 (1990) Christopher Smart's Hymns
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 77 (1991) Hermes and Mr. Shaw
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 77 (1991) Postmodernism and Alan Curnow
Subscribers only Reviewed by Peter Robinson in PN Review 77 (1991) on Donald Davie
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 78 (1991) Balancing Acts: a small drama in three scenes
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 79 (1991) 'The Dry Salvages': A Reconsideration
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 80 (1991) The 'Ending Up' of Isaac Watts
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 81 (1991) The Carnality of Charles Wesley
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 82 (1991) Postmodernism and Lorine Niedecker
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 84 (1992) Inwardness and the Dictionary
Subscribers only Interviewed by Clive Wilmer in PN Review 88 (1992) in Conversation with Donald Davie
Subscribers only Interviewed by Nicolas Tredell in PN Review 88 (1992) in Conversation with Donald Davie
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 89 (1993) Letters from Hull
Subscribers only Reviewed by Clive Wilmer in PN Review 91 (1993) on Donald Davie's studies in Evra Pound
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 100 (1994) Four Poems
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 103 (1995) The Canon: Values and Heritage
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 107 (1996) Our Father
Subscribers only Reviewed by Emma Tristram in PN Review 114 (1997) on Donald Davie's anthology of Psalms
Subscribers only Reviewed by Stephen Logan in PN Review 126 (1999) on Donald Davie
Subscribers only Reviewed by Peter Carpenter in PN Review 128 (1999) on Donald Davie
Subscribers only Reviewed by Julian Stannard in PN Review 179 (2008) on Donald Davie's early criticism
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