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To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred

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Here Davie, a writer attuned to both the changes of the modern world and a living literary tradition, turns to the lapsed poetic practice of translation and imitation of the Psalms of David. The result is a series of poems that speak powerfully of moral indignation and spiritual discovery within the complex of modernity.

"Few modern poets have managed to achieve Donald Davie's sense of human worth."—Times Higher Educational Supplement

Language: English

Pages: 62

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: September 15, 1988

ISBN: 0226137554

ISBN 13: 9780226137551

To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred

3/5 ( ratings)

Here Davie, a writer attuned to both the changes of the modern world and a living literary tradition, turns to the lapsed poetic practice of translation and imitation of the Psalms of David. The result is a series of poems that speak powerfully of moral indignation and spiritual discovery within the complex of modernity.

"Few modern poets have managed to achieve Donald Davie's sense of human worth."—Times Higher Educational Supplement

Language: English

Pages: 62

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: September 15, 1988

ISBN: 0226137554

ISBN 13: 9780226137551

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