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Product Description: Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.

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9780435150198 | Heinemann, June 1, 1958, cover price $6.50 | also contains Many Roads Traveled: Or, Twenty Years in Bondage | About this edition: Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library.

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Product Description: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...read more

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9780819520128 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, June 1, 1961, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Product Description: Book by Davie, Donald

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9780819510273 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, January 1, 1965, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Book by Davie, Donald

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Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

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9780805232127 | Schocken Books, June 1, 1967, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

A political explanation of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings accompanies an analysis of Hardy's poetic technique and a look at his scientific humanism which survives in socialist and liberal policies today

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9780195015720 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1972, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A political explanation of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings accompanies an analysis of Hardy's poetic technique and a look at his scientific humanism which survives in socialist and liberal policies today

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Product Description: An analysis of the major voices in the contemporary poetic traditions of England, Ireland, and America

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9780472063109 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1979, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the major voices in the contemporary poetic traditions of England, Ireland, and America

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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)

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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

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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

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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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.

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

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

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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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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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

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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'.

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

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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.

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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)

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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

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This is a translation of the Lincoln Psalter.

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

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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

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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

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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)

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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.

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