Clean Poetry
John Bayley, 18 August 1983
Collected Poems 1970-1983
by Donald Davie.
Carcanet, 172 pp., £5.95, May 1983,0 85635 462 7 Show More
by Donald Davie.
Carcanet, 172 pp., £5.95, May 1983,
“... New Criticism, John Crowe Ransom, I.A. Richards, Allen Tate, and young up-and-coming members like Randall Jarrell, a world in which the academic and the poet were entering together a new world of feeling and technique, joining tradition and novelty. Bliss was it in that dawn when American campuses beckoned hospitably and offered glittering prizes. From ... ”