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,
“... future. But as well as these English inspirations – Cambridge, Barnsley, the shires of Hardy and Betjeman – there was also the bright American world of the 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 ... ”