Donald Davie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Davie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Davie |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England
List of illustrations Introduction 1. Dr Byrom of Manchester, FRS 2. Isaac Watts: the axiomatic hymns 3. Watts's atrocity hymns 4. The 'Ending Up' of Isaac Watts 5. The carnality of Charles Wesley 6. Psalmody as translation 7. Inwardness and the dictionary 8. Christopher Smart and English rococo 9. Smart's elegance 10. The author of 'Amazing Grace' 11. William Cowper and the plain style Conclusion Index.
Slavic Excursions
Baroque in the Hymn-book
‘Baroque’ is a word that has never yet been thoroughly acclimatized among us. To most English-speakers, I think, the word still smacks of something pretentious and affected—if not, indeed, of special pleading. At best it denotes a category that we may learn about and agree to trust so long as we are dutiful tourists in Italy or perhaps Poland, which we can thankfully discard when we get back to native soil
"Responses to "The Politics of Interpretation
Poet
L'Italia Di Ezra Pound
Augustan Lyric
The Poetic World of Boris Pasternak
The Universe of Ezra Pound
Trevenen
John Ledyard
IT IS not much to our credit if, as students of the eighteenth century, we seldom accord more than a footnote, if indeed that much, to the field of eighteenth-century accomplishment that is represented by names like Anson and Commodore Byron, Bligh and Carteret and Wallis, Bougainville and La Perouse, Kerguelen and Marion du Fresne. There are signs that a generation which has learned to concern itself, however superficially, with ecology may redr…
Pasternak
Christopher Smart
SMART S TRANSLATIONS of the Psalms do not constitute one of his main claims to fame or to our attention. And Father Devlin is right when he says of this work that main interest lies in its being an unintentional rehearsal for the Song to David. 1 But this in itself is a notable claim on our attentions, and we sharpen it if we say that the Psalm versions make a bridge TO the Song to David FROM Rejoice in the Lamb. For this is the chronologyRejoice…
The Poems of Dr. Zhivago
Russian Literature and Modern English Fiction
Russian Literature and Modern English Fiction
The Poems of Dr. Zhivago
The 25 poems from Pasternak's masterpiece Doctor Zhivago are followed by a masterful critique of their function in the novel and their value as poetry
Ezra Pound
Two Poems
Essay Review
A Meeting of Cultures
Barnsley & District
Purity of Diction in English Verse.
Purity of Diction in English Verse
Purity of Diction in English Verse
Purity of Diction in English Verse.
A Meeting of Cultures
Barnsley & District
Essay Review
Two Poems
The Poems of Dr. Zhivago
The 25 poems from Pasternak's masterpiece Doctor Zhivago are followed by a masterful critique of their function in the novel and their value as poetry
Ezra Pound
Russian Literature and Modern English Fiction
Russian Literature and Modern English Fiction
The Poems of Dr. Zhivago
Pasternak
Christopher Smart
SMART S TRANSLATIONS of the Psalms do not constitute one of his main claims to fame or to our attention. And Father Devlin is right when he says of this work that main interest lies in its being an unintentional rehearsal for the Song to David. 1 But this in itself is a notable claim on our attentions, and we sharpen it if we say that the Psalm versions make a bridge TO the Song to David FROM Rejoice in the Lamb. For this is the chronologyRejoice…
John Ledyard
IT IS not much to our credit if, as students of the eighteenth century, we seldom accord more than a footnote, if indeed that much, to the field of eighteenth-century accomplishment that is represented by names like Anson and Commodore Byron, Bligh and Carteret and Wallis, Bougainville and La Perouse, Kerguelen and Marion du Fresne. There are signs that a generation which has learned to concern itself, however superficially, with ecology may redr…
The Universe of Ezra Pound
Trevenen
Augustan Lyric
The Poetic World of Boris Pasternak
L'Italia Di Ezra Pound
Poet
"Responses to "The Politics of Interpretation
Baroque in the Hymn-book
‘Baroque’ is a word that has never yet been thoroughly acclimatized among us. To most English-speakers, I think, the word still smacks of something pretentious and affected—if not, indeed, of special pleading. At best it denotes a category that we may learn about and agree to trust so long as we are dutiful tourists in Italy or perhaps Poland, which we can thankfully discard when we get back to native soil
Slavic Excursions
The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England
List of illustrations Introduction 1. Dr Byrom of Manchester, FRS 2. Isaac Watts: the axiomatic hymns 3. Watts's atrocity hymns 4. The 'Ending Up' of Isaac Watts 5. The carnality of Charles Wesley 6. Psalmody as translation 7. Inwardness and the dictionary 8. Christopher Smart and English rococo 9. Smart's elegance 10. The author of 'Amazing Grace' 11. William Cowper and the plain style Conclusion Index.
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