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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