Selected Poems
eBook - ePub

Selected Poems

  1. 132 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Selected Poems

About this book

This new selection of Donald Davie's poems spans six decades. It traces his protean trajectory from austere beginnings to riskier dislocations of shape and syntax, through to his extended late-meditations on form, content, and spirit. To apply his own critical definition of syntax, his is a poetic of articulate energy, the restless redistribution of force – an abiding resource and inspiration.

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Yes, you can access Selected Poems by Donald Davie, Sinéad Morrissey in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & European Poetry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Carcanet Classics
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781800172906
eBook ISBN
9781800172913
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Pelican
  5. Tiger at the Movie-Show
  6. Homage to William Cowper
  7. Demi-Exile. Howth
  8. Poem as Abstract
  9. Evening on the Boyne
  10. Pushkin. A Didactic Poem
  11. Woodpigeons at Raheny
  12. Love-Poems: for Mairi MacInnes
  13. Time Passing, Beloved
  14. The Wind at Penistone
  15. Gardens no Emblems
  16. Heigh-ho on a Winter Afternoon
  17. Against Confidences
  18. For an Age of Plastics
  19. The ‘Sculpture’ of Rhyme
  20. Two Dedications
  21. Low Lands
  22. Green River
  23. A Battlefield
  24. Across the Bay
  25. In California
  26. In Chopin’s Garden
  27. A Meeting of Cultures
  28. On Not Deserving
  29. July, 1964
  30. January
  31. Sunburst
  32. The God of Details
  33. Expecting Silence
  34. A Winter Landscape near Ely
  35. A Conditioned Air
  36. Intervals in a Busy Life
  37. Behind the North Wind
  38. Oak Openings
  39. Epistle. To Enrique Caracciolo Trejo
  40. Christmas Syllabics for a Wife
  41. Looking out from Ferrara
  42. Pilate
  43. Midsummer’s Eve
  44. Boyhood Misremembered
  45. The Departed
  46. After the Calamitous Convoy (July 1942)
  47. Portland
  48. Ars Poetica
  49. Morning
  50. Mandelstam in the Crimea
  51. Well-found Poem
  52. The Bent
  53. Catullus on Friendship
  54. Penelope
  55. Mandelstam’s Hope for the Best
  56. Benedictus
  57. Poet Redeemed & Dead
  58. Attar of Roses
  59. ‘So make them melt as the dishousèd snail’
  60. Church Militant
  61. Curtains!
  62. ‘And Our Eternal Home’
  63. Their Rectitude Their Beauty
  64. The Creature David
  65. The Elect
  66. If I Take the Wings of the Morning
  67. Northern Metres
  68. To a Bad Poet
  69. Wombwell On Strike
  70. Jottings, not so Random
  71. ‘Our Father’
  72. About the Authors
  73. Copyright