Oh Doug!! Yes, I know he was an interesting critic, and that he came to
acknowledge Pound, he was also the first recognised critic to mention a
young Jeremy Prynne.
2009/7/15 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Yes, & although Dave might not care, he was very good on Pound, too. Not to
> mention that although he took up Hardy at one point, he later also
> recognized the importance of Bunting....
>
> As a critic, he writes clearly & forcefully, too...
>
> Doug
> On 14-Jul-09, at 2:25 PM, Max Richards wrote:
>
> I think Davie was hard at work in academic English widening the canon that
>> had
>> been narrowed by Leavis's Revaluation (1936), which was so hard on Shelley
>> and
>> Milton and ...
>>
>> Whatever Davie's achievement as poet, his criticism wherever I have
>> sampled it
>> has an energy and often relish about it that engages me ...
>>
>> Max
>>
>
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