{"product_id":"9781857544060-donald-davie-collected-poems","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDonald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms. His passion is for our common language, its registers and tonalities.\u003cbr\u003eDonald Davie was, \u003cem\u003epar excellence\u003c\/em\u003e, the engaged poet of our time.His poems do not pre-empt us in the way that protest or political poetry does, though he protests and is political.He was a poet of English perspectives refracted through historical mediation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably of the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms.His passion is for our common language, its registers and tonalities, what it can do responsibly and where it can go only at its peril.\u003cbr\u003e               This expanded edition of the \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e includes the posthumous Poems and Melodramas.It restores to print the author's own selection from his Pasternak translations and the whole of \u003cem\u003eThe Forests of Lithuania\u003c\/em\u003e, and it gathers together for the first time over two dozen poems which have not previously appeared in any of his collections.It also incorporates the corrections and revisions Davie made to his own copy of the 1990 \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e.The Notes which he provided for his first Collected in 1972 at last reappear, supplemented by further notes and a new editorial introduction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41519353561185,"sku":"9781857544060","price":30.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_35890212.jpg?v=1756917464","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781857544060-donald-davie-collected-poems","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}