Slavic Excursions

Born in Barnsley in 1922, Donald Davie served in the Navy and studied at Cambridge, becoming Professor of English at Essex, and later at Stanford and Vanderbilt. In 1988 he returned to England where he died in 1995. Carcanet's uniform "Collected Works of Donald Davie" includes "Collected Poems" (1990), "Under Briggflatts" (1989), "Slavic Excursions" (1990), "Studies in Ezra Pound" (1991), "Older Masters" (1992), "Church, Chapel, and the Unitarian Conspiracy" (1995) and "Poems and Melodramas" (1996). "Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy" (one volume) are also available from Carcanet.