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Donald Davie

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ISBN: 978 0 856356 42 1
Imprint: Lives and Letters
Published: January 1986
216 x 135 mm
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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    • Born in Barnsley in 1922, Donald Davie served in the Navy and studied at Cambridge, becoming Professor of English at Essex, and later at Stanford and Vanderbilt. In 1988 he returned to England where he died in 1995. Carcanet's uniform Collected Works of Donald Davie includes Collected Poems (1990), Under Briggflatts ... read more
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