Donald Davie

In the LRB Archive:

• Lawful Charm · 6 July 1995

  • Selected Poems by William Barnes, edited by Andrew Motion
  • Selected Poems by William Barnes, read by Alan Chedzoy

• Second Chances · 22 July 1993

  • Collected Poems by Patricia Beer
  • Friend of Heraclitus by Patricia Beer

• Playgoing · 27 May 1993

  • The English Bible and the 17th-Century Revolution by Christopher Hill

• Boeotian Masters · 5 November 1992

  • The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose by Les Murray

• Scots wha hae gone to England · 9 July 1992

  • Devolving English Literature by Robert Crawford
  • The Faber Book of 20th-Century Scottish Poetry edited by Douglas Dunn

• Jokes · 11 June 1992

  • In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets by Peter Robinson

• Their Witness · 27 February 1992

  • The Poetry of Survival: Post-War Poets of Central and Eastern Europe edited by Daniel Weissbort

• Browning and Modernism · 10 October 1991

  • The Poems of Browning. Vol. I: 1826-1840 edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin
  • The Poems of Browning. Vol. II: 1841-1846 edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin

• Bloom’s Bible · 13 June 1991

  • The Book of J translated by David Rosenberg, interpreted by Harold Bloom

• Endearingness · 21 March 1991

  • The Oxford Book of Essays edited by John Gross

• Pound and the Perfect Lady · 19 September 1985

  • Pound’s Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy by Richard Humphreys
  • Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters 1909-1914 edited by Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz

• Pound’s Friends · 23 May 1985

  • Pound’s Cantos by Peter Makin
  • To Write Paradise: Style and Error in Pound’s Cantos by Christine Froula
  • Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing by Peter Nicholls

• Four Poems · 21 March 1985

• Unaccountables · 7 March 1985

  • The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid edited by Alan Bold
  • Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972 edited by Paul O’Prey

• Other Poems and Other Poets · 20 September 1984

  • Notes from New York, and Other Poems by Charles Tomlinson
  • The Cargo by Neil Rennie
  • Collected Poems 1943-1983 by C.H. Sisson

• Fallen Language · 21 June 1984

  • The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Geoffrey Hill

• Fit and Few · 3 May 1984

  • The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry by David Trotter

• Retrospective · 2 February 1984

  • A World of Difference by Norman MacCaig

• Raining · 5 May 1983

  • Later Poems by R.S. Thomas
  • Thomas Hardy Annual, No 1 edited by Norman Page
  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell
  • Hardy’s Love Poems by Thomas Hardy, edited by Carl Weber
  • The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Vol. I: Wessex Poems, Poems of the Past and the Present, Time’s Laughingstocks edited by Samuel Hynes

• Poem: ‘For Ivor Gurney’ · 3 March 1983

• Gurney’s Flood · 3 February 1983

  • Geoffrey Grigson: Collected Poems 1963-1980
  • The Cornish Dancer by Geoffrey Grigson
  • The Private Art: A Poetry Notebook by Geoffrey Grigson
  • Blessings, Kicks and Curses: A Critical Collection by Geoffrey Grigson
  • Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney edited by P.J. Kavanagh
  • War Letters by Ivor Gurney, edited by R.K.R. Thornton

• Cambridge Theatre · 19 August 1982

  • Swansongs by Sue Lenier
  • Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes
  • Devotions by Clive Wilmer

• Poem: ‘Argonauts’ · 15 July 1982

• Looking Up · 15 July 1982

  • The Passages of Joy by Thom Gunn
  • The Occasions of Poetry by Thom Gunn

• Prize Poems · 1 July 1982

  • Arvon Foundation Poetry Competion: 1980 Anthology by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney
  • Burn this by Tom Disch

• Certainties · 20 May 1982

  • In Defence of the Imagination by Helen Gardner

• Hearing about Damnation · 3 December 1981

  • Collected Poems by D.J. Enright

• My Americas · 3 September 1981

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