Enlarging Insularity
Patrick McGuinness: Donald Davie, 20 January 2000
With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry
by Donald Davie.
Carcanet, 346 pp., £14.95, October 1998,1 85754 394 7 Show More
by Donald Davie.
Carcanet, 346 pp., £14.95, October 1998,
“... Tomlinson refuses to put the clock back to pretend that after Pound and Eliot, Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens have written in English, the English poetic tradition remains unaffected ... he appears to believe, as Pound and Eliot did before him, that a Valéry and a Mallarmé change the landscape of poetry in languages other than their own. No wonder ... ”