A Garland of Many Years
Published on 21. November 2005
Book
Hardback
100 pages
978-0-8265-1507-0 (ISBN)
Description
Because these poems do not idealize love and marriage, they may raise eyebrows as readers examine the various expressions through which British poet Donald Davie identifies the essence of true love. The poems' strength lies in their honesty and intimacy and in the openness to the pain and self-understanding that both ardor and conflict can produce. They reveal a marriage in which the partners know each other too well to be assuaged by a sentimental lyricism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tennessee
United States
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
12 b/w photos & 43 poem facsimiles
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
394 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8265-1507-0 (9780826515070)
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Donald Davie is widely read in Britain and the United States by those who find the tensions of deep and complex emotion most effective in poetry when expressed with discipline and restraint. Davie, who taught for many years at Stanford and Vanderbilt, was also an influential scholar and critic. Vereen M. Bell, Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Robert Lowell: Nihilist as Hero, as well as books on Yeats and Cormac McCarthy.