search for books and compare prices
Donald Davie has written 31 work(s)
Search for other authors with the same name
at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 6 >
Jump to start at |
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Cover for 9780415500418 Cover for 9780415519953 Cover for 9780195199994 Cover for 9780415500333 Cover for 9780226628943 Cover for 9780415519960 Cover for 9780521381680 Cover for 9780521039567 Cover for 9781857548891 Cover for 9780826515070 Cover for 9781857546491 Cover for 9780192134264 Cover for 9780192804860 Cover for 9780192821577 Cover for 9781857546347 Cover for 9780226137605 Cover for 9780856358753 Cover for 9781857545791 Cover for 9780226137612 Cover for 9781857544602 Cover for 9781857543940 Cover for 9780856355950 Cover for 9781857543605 Cover for 9781857542653 Cover for 9780140446180 Cover for 9781857542905 Cover for 9780826406279 Cover for 9780856358807 Cover for 9780226137582 Cover for 9780226137599 Cover for 9780856358647 Cover for 9780226137568 Cover for 9780856358203 Cover for 9780226137544 Cover for 9780226137551 Cover for 9780521322645
cover image for 9780415519953
Product Description: First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works by the likes of Alexander Pushkin, Sir Walter Scott, Adam Mickiewicz and James Fenimore Cooper, this is also a meditation on the nature of Romanticism and its enduring value, as expressed in the novel form...read more

Hardcover:

9780415500418 | Routledge, December 8, 2011, cover price $155.00

Paperback:

9780415519953 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 5, 2013), cover price $46.95 | About this edition: First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century.

cover image for 9780415519960
Product Description: First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth...read more

Hardcover:

9780415500333 | Routledge, December 8, 2011, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth.
9780195199994 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1978, cover price $30.00 | also contains Trauma Surgery | About this edition: First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth.

Paperback:

9780415519960 | Reissue edition (Routledge, April 5, 2013), cover price $46.95 | About this edition: First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth.
9780226628943, titled "Olson's Penny Arcade" | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $2.95 | also contains Olson''s Penny Arcade | About this edition: A collection of poems by Elder Olson.

cover image for 9780521039567
Product Description: Donald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets. His career has been marked by a series of challenging critical interventions. The eighteenth century is the great age of the English hymn though these powerful and popular texts have been marginalized in the formation of the conventional literary canon...read more

Hardcover:

9780521381680 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $57.99 | About this edition: Donald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets.

Paperback:

9780521039567 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 27, 2007), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Donald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets.

cover image for 9781857548891
Product Description: Two literary criticism pieces that have shaped approaches to teaching poetry since the 1950s are now available in one volume with a new foreword. Providing a brilliantly detailed analysis of the workings of English poetry, this collection focuses on the technical workings of poetic language, examining devices such as meter and diction...read more

Paperback:

9781857548891 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Two literary criticism pieces that have shaped approaches to teaching poetry since the 1950s are now available in one volume with a new foreword.

cover image for 9780826515070

Hardcover:

9780826515070 | Facsimile edition (Vanderbilt Univ Pr, October 30, 2005), cover price $24.95

cover image for 9780192804860
Product Description: Offering both familiar poems and some fascinating unfamiliar ones, this anthology contains over 250 poems that deal with Christianity. Ranging from the Anglo-Saxon masterpiece "The Dream of the Rood" to the works of modern poets such as T...read more
By Donald Davie (editor)

Hardcover:

9780192134264, titled "The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse" | Oxford Univ Pr, March 4, 1982, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Gathers religious poems by Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Cowper, Dickinson, Eliot, Auden and others

Paperback:

9780192804860, titled "The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 2, 2003, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Offering both familiar poems and some fascinating unfamiliar ones, this anthology contains over 250 poems that deal with Christianity.
9780192821577 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $20.95 | also contains Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays | About this edition: Gathers religious poems by Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Cowper, Dickinson, Eliot, Auden and others

cover image for 9781857545791
Product Description: Donald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms. His passion is for our common language, its registers and tonalities.

Hardcover:

9781857545791 | Carcanet Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Donald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms.
9780226137605 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 28, 1991, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s.
9780856358753 | Carcanet Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s.

Paperback:

9780226137612 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 2, 1991, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s.

cover image for 9781857544602
Product Description: In this collection of essays on American poetry, edited by his widow, Donald Davie starts with Walt Whitman, displaying the poet's influence on the Modernists and their successors, covering such writers as Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Robert Pinsky. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781857544602 | Carcanet Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this collection of essays on American poetry, edited by his widow, Donald Davie starts with Walt Whitman, displaying the poet's influence on the Modernists and their successors, covering such writers as Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Robert Pinsky.

cover image for 9781857543605
Product Description: 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 modernism, starting with Hardy and Pound, that remains one of the definitive outlines of twentieth-century experiment in form and language...read more

Paperback:

9781857543605, titled "Donald Davie: Selected Poems" | New edition (Carcanet Pr, July 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780856355950 | Carcanet Pr, August 1, 1985, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Deals with nature, religion, self-worth, dreams, the past, travel, criticism, individuality, and hope

cover image for 9781857542653
This is a translation of the Lincoln Psalter.

Paperback:

9781857542653 | Carcanet Pr, May 15, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This is a translation of the Lincoln Psalter.

cover image for 9780140446180
Examines the practice of rendering the Biblical psalms in English verse, presents versions of the psalms by British poets from the sixteenth century to the present, and includes commentary on the original Hebrew psalms
By Donald Davie (editor)

Paperback:

9780140446180 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1996), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Examines the practice of rendering the Biblical psalms in English verse, presents versions of the psalms by British poets from the sixteenth century to the present, and includes commentary on the original Hebrew psalms

Product Description: This volume brings together Donald Davie's 1976 Clark Lectures (Cambridge), the 1980 Ward-Phillips Lectures and other material, illuminating the heritage of distinctively English Protestant traditions. The book concerns an area of English literature, history and spirituality arguably unvalued now, when the churches themselves are at pains to forget the sermons, hymns and tracts which defined and energized their chapel lives...read more

Hardcover:

9781857541236 | Carcanet Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together Donald Davie's 1976 Clark Lectures (Cambridge), the 1980 Ward-Phillips Lectures and other material, illuminating the heritage of distinctively English Protestant traditions.

cover image for 9781857542905
Product Description: Shortly before his death in 1995, Donald Davie sent his publisher the poem'Our Father'. This ten-part meditation broke a poetic silence which hadstretched from 1988, when with To Scorch or Freeze, the writer declared hiswork as a poet finished...read more

Paperback:

9781857542905 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Shortly before his death in 1995, Donald Davie sent his publisher the poem'Our Father'.

cover image for 9780826406279
Product Description: Book by Davie, Donald

Hardcover:

9780826406279 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Davie, Donald

cover image for 9780856358807
Product Description: Sleep medicine is a modern discipline, but its field of knowledge is already extensive. This results from the progress made in understanding sleep-wake mechanisms, the development of reliable means of investigation, and advances in our knowledge of the nosology of the disorders of sleep and wakefulness...read more

Hardcover:

9780856358807 | Carcanet Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Sleep medicine is a modern discipline, but its field of knowledge is already extensive.

cover image for 9780226137582

Hardcover:

9780226137582 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $36.00

Paperback:

9780226137599 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $32.00

cover image for 9780856358647
Product Description: Like New

Hardcover:

9780856358647 | Carcanet Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Like New

cover image for 9780856358203
Product Description: "Under Briggflatts" is a history of the last thirty years of British poetry with necessary excursions into other areas: criticism, philosophy, translation, and non-British English poetries. It has grown naturally out of Donald Davie's immediate involvement with new writing as a poet, reviewer, teacher, and reader...read more

Hardcover:

9780856358203, titled "Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960-1988" | Carcanet Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: "Under Briggflatts" is a history of the last thirty years of British poetry with necessary excursions into other areas: criticism, philosophy, translation, and non-British English poetries.
9780226137568 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 12, 1989, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Under Briggflatts is a history of the last thirty years of British poetry with necessary excursions into other areas: criticism, philosophy, translation, and non-British English poetries.

cover image for 9780226137544
Product Description: Here Davie, a writer attuned to both the changes of the modern world and a living literary tradition, turns to the lapsed poetic practice of translation and imitation of the Psalms of David. The result is a series of poems that speak powerfully of moral indignation and spiritual discovery within the complex of modernity...read more

Hardcover:

9780226137544 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 29, 1988, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Here Davie, a writer attuned to both the changes of the modern world and a living literary tradition, turns to the lapsed poetic practice of translation and imitation of the Psalms of David.

Paperback:

9780226137551 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 1988, cover price $16.00

Paperback:

9780856358258 | Carcanet Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $11.20

cover image for 9780521322645
Product Description: When a European poet becomes an expatriate living in America, what adjustments and sacrifices should he make? What should he resist? By the same token, how should English-speakers modify their expectations when they read his work? Donald Davie considers such questions and others in this first book on the 1980 Polish Nobel laureate who has been living in the United States for twenty-five years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780521322645 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 18, 1986), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: When a European poet becomes an expatriate living in America, what adjustments and sacrifices should he make?
9780870494833 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $9.50

An analysis of the life and work of the American poet provides insight into the origins of his controversial social and political views and his relation to twentieth-century literature

Paperback:

9780226137537 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the life and work of the American poet provides insight into the origins of his controversial social and political views and his relation to twentieth-century literature

at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 6 >