Events and Wisdoms

Name: Events and Wisdoms
Author: Donald Davie

by Donald Davie

Poems reflecting on personal experience and historical events with formal precision

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Donald Davie

English poet and critic associated with The Movement who championed clarity and formal discipline. His Purity of Diction in English Verse was an influential critical manifesto.

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