American Scholar, September 22nd, 1997
Donald Davie is a poet engaged in a stylistic conversation of the old and rich language. He also believes that conversation is not an end in itself and that, it matters only when it sheds truth.
In the summer of 1994 I found myself on a train heading west across England toward the city of Exeter. From there I would travel to a village set among low green hills to visit Donald Davie. As I rode, I thumbed through a paperback copy of The Tempest, which I was scheduled to teach the next day; and since Donald had said not long before that he would write no more poetry, my eyes were naturally drawn...
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