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Donald Davie Papers

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Biographical Chronology 1922 Born 17 July at Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. Studied at

Barnsley Holgate Grammar School. 1940-1941 Entered St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. 1941-1946 Served in the Royal Navy (including a long stint in North Russia); became sub-lieutenant 1945 Married Doreen John of Plymouth, England

1946-1950 St. Catharine's College (BA 1947, MA 1949, Ph.D 1950

1950-1957 Taught at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (Fellow of Trinity College, 1954-1957

1952 Purity of Diction in English Verse (2nd edn 1967)

1955 Brides of Reason; Articulate Energy (2nd edn 1976.)

1957 A Winter Talent and other poems.

1957-1958 Taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara

1957-1964 Returned to teach at Cambridge (Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, 1959-1964).

1959 The Forests of Lithuania.

1961 A Sequence for Francis Parkman; New and Selected Poems; The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott.

1963 The Language of Science and the Language of Literature, 1700-1740.

1964-1968 Appointed Professor of Literature at the new University of Essex; served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1965-1968.

1964 Events and Wisdoms: poems 1957-1963; Ezra Pound: poet as sculptor.

1965 The Poems of Dr. Zhivago.

1968-1978 Appointed Professor of English at Stanford University, California.

1969 Essex Poems.


1970 Six Epistles to Eva Hesse.

1972 Collected Poems 1950-1970; Thomas Hardy and British Poetry.

1973 Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1974 The Shires.

1976 Pound.

1977 In the Stopping Train and other poems; The Poet in the Imaginary Museum; Essays of Two Decades.

1978-1988 Taught at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, as Mellon Professor of the Humanities.

1979 Trying to Explain. 1981 Three for Water Music; The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse

(ed.)

1982 These the Companions: recollections. 1987 Named Fellow, British Academy. 1995 Died 18 September, Exeter, England.


Scope and Content Note The papers of author, educator, poet, and critic Donald Davie consist of his writings, published and unpublished, printed and in draft form, both manuscripts and typescripts, literary correspondence, personal and biographical data, materials pertaining to his academic career and other professional activities, works of his associates and colleagues, and writings by other twentieth century poets and authors, some of them Davie’s students. The earliest materials are letters Davie wrote as a young man in the Royal Navy in 1942 and the latest are his obituaries written in 1995. The papers consist of these series: I. Writings II. Correspondence (Literary) III. Personal and Biographical Data IV. Academic Career V. Professional Activities VI. Associates and Colleagues VII. Writings by Others The series Writing includes some printed material, but the majority of this series is in manuscript or typescript. An oversized box contains a handcrafted book of poems by Davie and photographs by his wife, Doreen Davie. These materials date from 1947 until 1988. The subseries are: Poems and Translations Essays and Articles Reviews Lectures (Not class lectures) Book Manuscripts Bibliographies Tables of Contents and Book Plans Notebook The series Correspondence (Literary) consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence. It is arranged alphabetically by the correspondent’s last name. These letters range in date from 1958 until 1989. The series Personal and Biographical Data consists of a handwritten account of his wartime experiences in Russia, personal correspondence of that era, and his obituaries. These materials range in date from 1942 until 1995. The subseries are: Autobiography Personal Correspondence Obituaries


The series Academic Career consists of press clippings, materials relating to his university career in Britain, and his lecture notes, arranged by subject, in typescript and manuscript. Most of the lecture notes appear to date from his seven years at Trinity College Dublin. The items in this series range in date from 1951 until 1988. The subseries are: Clippings Correspondence and Memoranda Lecture notes The series Professional Activities consists of audiocassettes and reel-to-reel tapes recorded by Davie and materials from the journal PNR during the time Davie was editor. The materials date from 1972 until? The subseries are: Recorded Readings PNR Materials---Editing The series Associates and Colleagues consists of manuscripts and printed materials by Howard Warshaw and Peter Whigham, both colleagues of Davie at Stanford, whose works he supported and promoted. The materials in this series date from 1969 until 1983. The subseries are: Warshaw, Howard Whigham, Peter The series Writings by Others consists of critiques of Davie’s work and influence, proof copies Davie received to review, poetry of Davie’s students, and off-prints and books written by twentieth century poets and academics on the subject of poets and poetry. These materials range in date from 1922 until 1987. The materials dated in the 1920s are Xeroxed copies of material by Ivor Gurney (d. 1937), but they were copied for Davie in 1988. The subseries are: About Donald Davie Proof Copies Received for Review Student Poetry Twentieth Century Poets and Authors The Donald Davie Papers were purchased from his estate, and literary rights remain the property of his heirs. Please consult the Head of Special Collections for permission to quote or publish any part of this collection.


Writings Poems by Donald Davie Box 1 File 1 Across the Bay (2) After An Accident After the Accident After the Match Against Confidences Agave in the West (2) An Aquaintance Anecdote of Transitions (2) Asking for It At the First Turning At Sea Auto Wrecking Barnsley Cricket Club Barnsley & District (2) File 2 A Battlefield The Bawdy Loves of Injuste Between Dead and Alive Bolyai, the Geometer The Boy Scouts Sing for William Yeats (2) Child’s Play A Christening Christmas Eve Carol Coastal Redwoods, California Coming to Maricopa

Confession of Jovan Babic (1915) also known as Testament of Jovan Babic (1915) Criccieth The Cypress Avenue (2) Déraciné Dublin Boy Duplicity in Prayer Ebenezer’s Son


File 3 The English and the Russian Poet Expecting Venice Explanation The Farmer’s Wife: at Foston’s Ash The Feeders First Love Flatterers For the Duchess of Wellington From the Kaibab Forest Gangsters Talk File 4 The Gardens of Savoy (2) Grey Squirrel Hidden Persuaders The Hill Field (2) His Fair Compatriot Homage to John L. Stephens The Horde Hornet Housekeeping Humanly Speaking (2) Hyphens (2) File 5 In California (2) In Chopin’s Garden (2) In Course of Custom’s Lapse In the Watermeadows Indian Summer Intrusions File 6 In the Forests of Lithuania The Homestead The Castle The Gathering of Mushrooms The Drawing Room The Year 1812 File 7 John Maydew, or the Allotment Knowing and Showing –see alternate title Thanks


Landfall and Funeral Life Encompassed A Lily at Noon Love and the Times (2) Low Lands Marriage A Measured Tread (5) A Meeting of Cultures (3) Metals (2) Middle Age: Phayader –see alternate title Rhayader Mister Parkman Among the Indians Navy Day at Devonport File 8 New Dawn New York in August (2) The Nineteen-Sixties in Wales Nine-year old, Touring for Di. North and South Ode to the Soul of Friendship File 9 Of George and Mary Oppen (2) Of the Will On Generous Lines On Not Deserving (3) Orford On Receiving a Heavy Pocketknife (2)

Orion File 10 Parochial Past and Present (2) The Pegasus Perspectives Porec (2) Portland

The Prolific Spell –also contains Piazza Tartini Prompters Red Rock of Utah The Red Mills (5) Reminded of Bougainville File 11 Resolutions Return to Hinton (2)


Rhayader (3) –see alternate title Middle Age File 12 Right Wing Sympathies (3) The River Salute to Pushkin San Bernadino Savannah, For Alexander Heard (2) Sculptures in Hungary (3) File 13 A Sequence for Francis Parkman (2) plus worksheets File 14 Shambles Street after Seven Years Soliloquy of the Minister for Culture (2) Smoking Habits (2) The Stone Guest Storm Passing Over Stratford on Avon The Swineherd Telephone Call from the Palace of Art (2) Thanks (2) –alternate title Knowing and Showing To the Age of Bronze To Scott Fitzgerald Tolstoy at Christmas Through Bifocals File 15 The University of the South (4) Untitled Vezelay Viper Man Virtual Space Visiting Day a the General Hospital (2)

Vindication of Jovan Babic (1915) –alternate title Confession of Jovan Babic(1915) A Voice from the Garden: for D. Vying (2) Want in Summer Where Depths Are Surface Wide France (3) Windfall A Winter Landscape Near Ely The Wordsworthian Yorkshire Antiquarians


Zelazowa Wola

Poems (Translations) File 16 Akhmatova, Anna “Boris Pasternak” Illyes, Gyula “Horror” Mandelstam “on Dante, Voronezh. 1937 Pasternak, Boris –from “Dr. Zhivago” August Autumn The Bad Days The Breach Christmas Star Daybreak (3) Earth Explanation (2)

Fairy Story Foul Ways in Springtime Hamlet In Passion Week

File 17 Pasternak, Boris –from “Dr. Zhivago” Magdalene I Magdalene II (3) March (2) The Miracle (2) Rendevous Summer in the City Wedding Wind White Night Pasternak, Boris –The Break Pasternak, Boris –Death of a Poet Pasternak, Boris –Grass and Stone Pasternak, Boris –Soul Vyazemsky, P. A. –Stanzas to Davydov (1854) Essays, Articles File 18 Academicism and Jonathan Swift Adrian Stokes and Pound’s “Cantos” Augustans Old and New


File 19 Austin Clark File 20 Baroque in the Hymn-book Berkeley and the Style of Dialogue File 21 Berkeley’s Style in “Siris” The Breath-Pause and the Caesura in 16th century Verse Can Literary History be Permitted? The Conservatism of N. S. Leskov File 22 The Deserted Village: Poem as Virtual History Disaffection of the Dissenters under George III File 23 Dostoievsky and the Dandy Dramatic Poetry: Dryden’s Conversation-Piece File 24 The Dry Salvages The Earnest and the Smart Provincialism in Letters Elitism, and So On File 25 From the Marches of Christendom: Mandelstam and Milosz Box 2 File 1 Hardy’s Poems of 1912-1913 Is there a London Literary Racket? Ivor Gurney Kaethchen of Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist Landscape as Poetic Focus File 2 Niedecker and Historicity Notes to Zhivago’s “The Wedding” File 3 Notes on “White Night” Parochial Reflections of a Man of Letters


File 4 The Poems of Prince Vyazemsky File 5 The Port in the Imaginary Museum The Poet Thomas Hardy File 6

Poetry and Philosophy. For Vicki Hearne. Also “Three Allusions to Issac Watts” and “Three Allusions to George Berkeley” Poetry and Politics in Tomlinson The Poetry of Coleridge (2) Poetry, or Poems?

File 7 Postmodernism and Allen Curnow Postmodernism, Craft, and the Market for Poetry Rob Roy: An Introduction File 8 Scientist; Philosopher; Poet Sir Herbert Read’s Romanticism A Son of Ezra File 9 The Stories of Ivan Bunin Strength and Ease of Terms of Seventeenth Century Criticism File 10 To See and Not to See You by Rafael Alberti translated by Lloyd Mallan Trying to Explain Verse Translation Warshaw, Howard Preface by Davie for Warshaw’s “Drawings on Drawing” Reviews File 11

Akhmatova, Anna. Trans. By Judith Hemschemeyer. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova. (2)

File 12 Bunting, Basil. Richard Caddel, ed. Uncollected Poems

Forde, Victoria. The Poetry of Basil Bunting Browning, Robert. John Woolford and Daniel Kaelin, eds. The Poems of Browning


Clare, John. H. Haughton, A. Phillips, and G. Summerfield, eds. John Clare in Context

File 13 Crawford, Robert. Devolving English Literature. Also Dunn, Douglas, ed. Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry. Dale, Peter. Mortal Fire. Davis, Paul. Dryden’s Imaginary Commonwealth. Eastwood, John. David Middleton, ed. Mind and Blood: The Collected Poems of John Finlay. And Hermetic Light, Essays on the Gnostic Spirit in Modern Literature and Thought.

File 14 Fowler, Alastair, ed. The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Also Hill, Geoffrey. The Enemy’s Country. Gross, John, ed. The Oxford Book of Essays. Gurney, Ivor. R. K. R. Thornton, ed. Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters. Lowell, Robert. Collected Prose.

File 15 McGann, Jerome J. Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. McGann, Jerome J., ed. The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse. (2) Murray, Les. The Paperback Tree. Selected Prose.

Nabakov, Vladimir. The Gift. Review printed on unidentified newspaper, plus draft and notes for the review

File 16 Paz, Octavio. Helen Lane, trans. The Other Voice. Poetry and the Fin-de-siecle. Robinson, Peter. In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets. Rosenberg, David and Harold Bloom, trans. The Book of J. Tomlinson, Charles. Poetry and Metamorphosis. File 17

Trickett, Rachel. Pope and the Man of Ross. The Honest Muse: A Study in Augustin Verse. Weissbort, Daniel, ed. The Poetry of Survival. Post-War Poets of Central and Eastern Europe. Ziolkowski, Theodore. Virgil and the Moderns.

Lectures File 18

Aesthetic Value –Judgements in Literary Criticism or What Do We Mean When We Say “This is a Good Poem?” Address to the Irish Philosophical Club. Undated


American Poetry Through British Eyes. Addressed to the Friends of the Joint University Libraries of Vanderbilt University. Undated D. H. Lawrence, Englishman. Undated

File 19 Marianne Moore. A paper for the Cambridge English Club. Undated. Also a fragment of a critique of review in “Scrutiny” Vol. IV., no. 1, June 1935. pp. 87-90 of Selected Poems of Marianne Moore.

File 20 The Poet in the Imaginary Museum. Introduction to the 2nd of two talks. Undated. The Poet Keats. Delivered to Perse School Literary Society, undated

Poetic License and Civil Freedoms –The Poets Role in a time of Social Ferment. Address to the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles, California, February 1970.

File 21 The Russian Novel –draft of a paper for the Shirley Society, undated. File 22 Sacred Poetry of Jack Clemo. Endowed lecture to the University of Surrey, 1982. Tolstoy. An Hours Talk, undated. File 23

A Tribute to Allen Tate. Delivered at Vanderbilt University, undated –an introduction to an address by Robert Pinsky. Values and Heritage. Delivered at Tate Gallery, London, England, 23 October 1993. Also a photocopy of an article in The Independent announcing the conference “Art and Value” with handwritten comments by Davie.

File 24 Henry Vaughn and the 17th Century Psalmists.

William Butler Yeats and the Savile Club.

Book Manuscripts File 25 Foreward to a Penguin reprint of Purity of Diction in English Verse. Cover by Donald Davie for Juvenalia in Verse, March 1988. No contents. Box 3 Bibliographies File 1 English Translations of Russian Fiction in Book Form


English Translations of Russian Fiction in Book Form (continued) File 2

Essays and Articles on Russian Writers of Fiction Appearing in English Periodicals Between 1882-1945.

File 3 Reading List for Lectures on 18th century Poetry. Tolstoy: Bibliography of Translations into English. Works in English Upon Russian Fiction I. General Works. Works in English Upon Russian Fiction II. Specific Authors. Tables of Contents, Book Plans File 4

Auburn, or the Civilization of North America. The Book never went beyond the planning stage. Current Poetry of the American West Plan for Events and Wisdoms. Published London, 1964. Poems, 1957-1962. (2)

Notebook File 5

Notebook of handwritten poems, essays, travel notes, dated from 26 November 1957 to March 1959

Literary Correspondence Outgoing/ Incoming File 6 From D. D. to Mrs. Farmiloe, 14 March 1970 From Mark Brown, 27 April 1988 From Jim Chandler, 8 October 1981 From Mark Ferrer (stepson of Howard Warshaw), 8 April 1978 From Reginald Gibbons, 3 April 1980

From Donald Greene, 30 November 1977 From Elizabeth Griffin, 17 September 1958 From Thomas Kabdebo, 30 December 1968 From Dorothy Oberhaus, 11 January 1988 From Greg Miller, 18 and 27 August 1983 From John Pikoulis, undated From Paul Ramcey, 21 October 1979 From Janet Adam Smith, 5 April l965 From Stephen Spender, 1 January 1989


From John Wain, 1 February 1961 From George (colleague at Stanford), 20 July 1988 Personal and Biographical Materials Autobiography File 7 Remembering Russia. A Personal Record Personal Correspondence File 8 Donald Davie to Rene Haigh (6) Donald Davie to Dorothy Loomis Obituaries File 9 Independent. 20 September 1995 The Times (London) 21 September 1995 The New York Times. 23 September 1995 Vanderbilt Register. 2-8 October 1995 Academic Career Clippings, Memoranda File 10 “Separate Spheres” The Times Literary Supplement. 27 July 1967 Untitled. The Times Literary Supplement. 27 July 1967 “International Week At Vandy” The Tennessean. 16 March 1986 International Week Literary Symposium (1986)

“Culture and Its Rating at Present Time”, Matthew Arnold Centennial Conference, Liverpool University 18-21 July 1988 –Announces Donald Davie’s lecture “Matthew Arnold and the Decline of English Romanticism”, 20 July 1988. Private and Confidential Memo from Davie to the Vice-Chancellor of Essex University. Titled A Narrative of Certain Events. 28 May to 4 May 1968. Memoranda of what appears to be a critique perhaps two different recordings of Shakespeare’s sonnets


Lecture Notes File 11 Arguments for a Break in Elizabethan Verse about 1590 Auden. Lecture Jane Austen Blake Charlotte Bronte Bunyan –Pilgrim’s Progress I. Bunyan II. Burns File 12 Byron –Lecture I. Byron -Lecture II. Byron –Lecture III. Crabbe: The Borough Crabbe –Lecture II. Samuel Daniel File 13 Sir John Davies Thomas Deloney Dryden I. Dryden II. Dryden III. File 14 George Eliot I. George Eliot II. Elizabethan Novel Elizabethan Prose –Fiction English Novel John Gay Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera” File 15 Robert Greene I. Robert Greene II. Fulke Grenville, Lord Brooke Growth of the English Language James Joyce File 16 John Lyly I. John Lyly II.


Lyly and Sidney Thomas Lodge File 17 Meredith Thomas Nashe George Peele Raleigh Shakespeare –As you Like It Shakespeare –Macbeth I. Shakespeare –Macbeth II. File 18 Shakespeare –Macbeth III. Shakespeare –The Tempest

Shakespeare –Troilus and Cressida I. Shakespeare –Troilus and Cressida II. Shakespeare –Sonnets File 19 Shenstone –Elegies Sidney –Apologies for Poetrie Sidney –Arcadia Christopher Smart Robert Southwell File 20 Spenser –Faerie Queene I. Spenser –Faerie Queene II. Jonathan Swift I. Jonathan Swift II. Sterne Thackery –Vanity Fair Trollope –Barchester Towers File 21 Victorian Novel –The Introductory Lecture I. Victorian Novel –Dickens II. Victorian Novel –Dickens III. File 22 Victorian Novelists –IV. Thackery Victorian Novelists –Charlotte Bronte Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries


Box 4 Professional Activities Recorded Readings File 1 Three audio cassettes Donald Davie/Selected Poems Donald Davie reading John Dryden

Donald Davie Interview for WPLN Nashville with Molly Howell, originally broadcast 21 May 1980

File 2

Davie, Donald. Contemporary Poets Reading Their Own Poetry. The British Council--Recorded Sound Section. Tape No. 1841-Dubbed 21 December 1972. 7 & ½ ips. Duration-28minutes, 37 seconds. Film. 1800 feet, 7 " reel. Red label appended-reads "1-Stevenson-7 & 1/2." No other markings.

PNR Materials –Editing File 3 Editorial in PNR Galley proofs for various issues of PNR edited by Donald Davie Associates and Colleagues

Howard Warshaw File 4 Correspondence from Howard Warshaw to Donald Davie (4) “Drawings on Drawing” by Howard Warshaw

Peter Whigham File 5

Correspondences 1, 1982. An international review of literature; this copy belonged to Peter Whigham and announced publication of his work to appear in the next issue

File 6 “A Dante Portfolio” by Peter Whigham File 7

“The Comedy of Dante Aligheri: Inferno Canto I.” Translated with notes on the translation by Peter Whigham. Inscribed


File 8

Whigham, Peter. Do's and Don't's of Translation. California: Turkey Press, 1982. Inscribed. Inserted into the book are 2 photocopied pages of poems, without an author’s name or date.

Writings by Others About Donald Davie File 9

Bernard Bergonzi . “The Poetry of Donald Davie.” The Critical Quarterly. Winter, 1962 (2) Clyde Binfield. “Another Note on Non-Conformists.” PNR., 1970.

File 10 James A. Powell (with Paul Lake). “An Interview with Donald Davie.” Occident. Volume C, Number 2, Winter 1981.

Proof Copies Received for Review

File 11

Bush, Donald. T.S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Uncorrected advance bound proofs for review.

File 12

Kenner, High. A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Box 5 File 1

Lowell, Robert. Collected Prose. Uncorrected proof copy. 1987. Handwritten annotations by Davie.

File 2 Pritchard, William H. Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Uncorrected advance bound proofs for review.

File 3

Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. Uncorrected proof.


Student Poetry File 4

Daniel, David. "Alternatives to Life." Photocopy of poems submitted for M.A. degree, Johns Hopkins University,1983. Daniel, David. 3 poems. (Typescript).

File 5 De Arajo, Virginia. Correspondence and Miscellaneous poems. File 6

De Arajo, Virginia. Miscellaneous poems a photocopy of Salvage, 1984. Inscribed note. Erinna. Trs., Daniel Haberman with Marilyn Arthur. Erinna to Baucis with an Epigram by Antipater of Sidon. NewYork, 1978. Private printing, copy 204 of 300. Inscribed.

File 7

De Andrade, Carlos Drummond. Virginia de Arajo, tr. WPA # 9. The Word People, 1977. (4 copies).

File 8

Hearne, Vicki. Nervous Horses. (62 pp. Of photocopied book). Letter from Hearne to Davie, Undated.

File 9

Hearne, Vicki. Nervous Horses. Photocopy. 1979. Inscribed. File 10

Hearne, Vicki. The Purebred Dog Gazette. Photocopy. No date. Inscribed.

Box 6 File 1

Miller, Greg. American Flat. Photocopy of poetry ms. Sent to Davie along with a letter. August, 1985.

File 2 Miller, Greg. The Beautiful Broken Things. Photocopy of poetry ms. No date.

20th Century Poets and Authors File 3

Bernstein, Michael Andre. "Robert Duncan: Talent and the Individual Tradition" Sagetrieb Vol. 4, nos. 2 & 3, Fall & Winter 1985 (Offprint) Inscribed. Bly, Robert. "The Woman Who Lives Forever." (New York, 1987). Inscribed. Bryant, Kenneth. Posthumous (after Horace)---for Donald Davie. Typescript of poem, April, '88. Inscribed with initials.


Brown, Mark W. Photocopy of archive material of Ivor Gurney transcribed by hand and annotated. File includes a note dated April 27, 1988. Burchfield, Robert. The Spoken Language as an Art Form: An Autobiographical Approach. Occasional Papers 1, The English Speaking Union of the United States, May, 1981. Inscribed, July 1981. Includes inscribed note.

File 4

Chace, William M. "Lionel Trilling." The American Scholar. Winter, 1978/79. (Offprint) Inscribed. Chandler, James K. "Wordsworth and Blake" ELH Vol. 47, 1980, pp. 741-771 (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1980) (Offprint) Inscribed. Costa, Corrado. Paul Vangelisti, tr. Our Positions. California: The Red Hill Press, 1975. The first two poems have, under the original Italian, handwritten translations which differ from the Vangelisti translations on the facing pages.

File 5

Dekker, George. "Sir Walter Scott, the Angel of Hadley, and American Historical Fiction" American Studies Vol. 17, no. 2 (1982) (Offprint) Inscribed. DiPalma, Ray. Plank. 1979. (Booklet of poetry). Doherty, Mary Jane. "Flores Solitudinis: The ‘Two Ways’ and Vaughan’s Patristic Hagiography”. George Herbert Journal Vol. 7, nos. 1 & 2, Fall 1983/Spring 1984 (Offprint) Inscribed.

File 6

Erinna. Translated by Daniel Haberman with Marilyn Arthur. Erinna to Baucis. With an epigram by Antipater of Sidon. Flanner, Hildegarde. The Hearkening Eye. 1979. (Booklet of poetry).

File 7

Gal, Istvan. "Sir Philip Sidney’s Guidebook to Hungary" Hungarian Studies in EnglishVol. 4, December 1969. (Offprint) Inscribed. Gibbons, Reginald. The Poet's Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979.

File 8

Gibbons, Reginald. Miscellaneous poems in typescript and photocopies. 1980. Inscribed.

File 9

Goia, Dana. "An Elegy for Vladimir de Pachmann" The Hudson Review Vol. 34, no. 3, Autumn 1981 (Offprint) Inscribed. Greene, Donald. "’Dramatic Texture’ in Pope" in From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays in Honor of F.A. Pottle (Yale, 1965) (Offprint) Inscribed. Greene, Donald. "Latitudinarianism and Sensibility: The Genealogy of ‘The Man of Feeling’ Reconsidered" Modern Philology Vol. 75, no.2 Nov. 1977. (Offprint) Inscribed.


File 10 Greene, Donald. "The Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature: Past, Present, Future" in New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature (Columbia Univ., 1974) (Offprint) Inscribed. Greene, Donald. "Western Canadian Literature" 1967. (Offprint) Inscribed. Greene, Donald et al. Correspondence sent to Donald Davie. Guerard, Maclin B. "Reflections in Advanced Middle Age" Women’s Studies Vol. 5, 1977. (Photocopy of Poem) Inscribed.

File 11

Gurney, Ivor. Photocopy of handwritten archive (poems and letters) of Ivor Gurney. No date.

File 12

Gurney, Ivor. Photocopy of handwritten archive (poems and letters) of Ivor Gurney. No date.

Box 7 File 1

Jacobson, Roman. "On the Verbal Art of William Blake and Other Poet-Painters"Linguistic Inquiry, Vol . 1 , no. 1, Jan. 1970. (Offprint) Inscribed. Jacobson, Roman. ""Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry" Lingua: International Review of General Linguistics, Vol.21, 1968. (Offprint) Kabdebo, Thomas and Paul Tabori, eds. A Tribute to Gyula Illyes. Washington: Occidental Press, 1968. Includes Donald Davie’s poem “At Plovdiv,” p. 35. Inserted into the book is a letter from Kabdebo to Davie, dated Dec. 30, 1968.

File 2

Kreyling, Michael. "Lee Agonistes: The Southern Hero In the ‘Mid-Passage,’" The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. 84, no. 4, Autumn 1985. (Offprint)

File 3

Lewis, Janet. Poems Old and New 1918-1977. Photocopy. No date. File 4

Matthias, John. Miscellaneous poems. Typescript and photocopy. Undated. Inscribed.

File 5

Menashe, Samuel. Poems: "The Bare Tree" Sept. 22, 1966 (Typescript mss. of Poems) Inscribed.

File 6

Menashe, Samuel. Poems: "The Bare Tree" Nov. 22, 1968 (Typescript mss. of Poems) Inscribed. (Water damaged)


File 7

Nemoianu, Virgil "Is Literature Always Reactionary?" The Georgia Review Vol. 37,No. 2, Summer 1983. (0ffprint) Inscribed.

File 8

Nist, John. "Dulce and Decorum: An Epic of the American Civil War. Book One:The Peninsular Campaign" The Beloit Poetry Journal Vol. 9, Nos. 1 &2, Fall-Winter 1958.

File 9

Oberhaus, Dorothy Huff. " ‘Engine Against the Almightie’: Emily Dickinson and Prayer" ESQ, Vol. 32, 3rd Quarter, 1986. (Offprint). Inscribed. Oberhaus, Dorothy Huff. "’ Tender Pioneer’: Emily Dickinson’s Poems on the Life Of Christ" American Literature, Oct. 1987. (Offprint) Inscribed.

File 10 Occident. Vol. XCIX. No. 1, Fall 1979 File 11

Perloff, Marjorie. "Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?" New Literary History: A Journal Of Theory and Interpretation Vol. 13, 1982-1982. (Offprint) Inscribed. Pikoulis, John. "Scott and ‘Marmion’: The Discovery of Identity" The Modern Language Review Vol. 66, no. 4, October 1971 (Offprint) Pinkerton, Helen. "Celebration.” The Southern Review Vol. 12, no. 2, Spring, 1976 (Offprint of Poem) Inscribed.

File 12

Pinsky, Robert. Sadness and Happiness (Typed mss. of Pinsky’s first book of poetry)

File 13

Pratt, William. "Imagism and Irony: The Shaping of the International Style" The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. 83, no. 1, Winter 1984 (Offprint) Inscribed.

File 14

Ramsey, Paul, ed. Contemporary Religious Poetry. New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1987. Includes Donald Davie's poem, “Prime,” p. 160.

File 15

Ramsey, Paul. No Running on the Boardwalk. The University of Georgia Press, 1975. Inscribed.

File 16

Ramsey, Paul. Typescript mss. of poems sent to Davie to be considered for inclusion In The Oxford Book of Christian Verse. Also photocopy of poems


published in Shenandoah, Vol. XXVI, no. 1, Fall 1974. Correspondence from Ramsey to Davie, Oct. 21, 1979.

Box 8 File 1

Reeves, Gareth. "The Waste Land and the Aeneid" Modern Language Review Vol. 82, no. 3, July 1987 (Offprint) Inscribed. Sandeen, Ernest. Photocopies. No date.

File 2

Shankman, Steven. "Led by the Light of the Maeonian Star: Aristotle on Tragedy and Odyssey 17.415-444" Classical Antiquity, Vol. 2, no. 1, April 1983 (Offprint) Inscribed. Shankman, Steven. "Reason and Revelation in the Pre-Enlightenment : Eric Vogelin’s Analysis and the Case of Swift" Religion and Literature, Vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 1984. (Offprint) Inscribed.

File 3

Photocopy of "The Courtesy”, PEQUOD, Spring, 1976 Essay: "A Living to Fail: The Case of John Berryman." N.d

File 4

Shapiro, Alan. Typescript of "Far Lamps at Night", an essay on the poetry of J.V. Cunningham N.d.

File 5 Shapiro, Alan. Essay “A Living to Fail: The Case of John Berryman.” N.d. File 6

Smith, Janet Adam. "Scott and the Idea of Scotland" (Parts 1 and 2) University Of Edinburgh Journal Spring and Autumn 1964 (Offprints)

File 7

Steele, Timothy. "Uncertainies and Rest." Copy of mss. N.d. Correspondence from Steele to Davie.

File 8

Stegner, Wallace. Robert Frost and Bernand De Voto. California: The Associates of Stanford University Libraries, 1974. Steiner, George. "Real Presences: The Leslie Stephen Memorial Lecture" (Cambridge University Press, 1986) Inscribed.

File 9 Stilllman, Michael B. "Memories of Grace Street." (Typescript). Inscribed.


File 10 Swann, Charles. "The Author of ‘Mark Rutherford’, or Who Wrote Miriam’s Schooling.” The Yearbook of English Studies Vol. 9, 1979. Trimpi, Wesley. "The Practices of Historical Interpretation and Nashe's 'Brightnesse Falls from the Ayre'". Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. LXVI, No. 4. October, 1967. (Offprint) Inscribed. “The Definition and Practice and Literary Studies.” New Literary History Vol. II, No. 1 Autumn, 1970. Inscribed.

File 11

Wiltshire, Susan. "Introduction: The Classical Tradition in the South" and "Jefferson, Calhoun, and the Slavery Debate: The Classics and the Two Minds of the South.” Southern Humanities Review (Auburn, 1977) Inscribed by Susan Wiltshire to Greg Miller, May, 1979.

Oversize Folder Davie, Donald and Doreen Davie. Romanesque Brevagna. Original book by Donald and Doreen Davie. String-tied in red paper boards, one of two sets. A Garland of Many Years. Poems for Doreen Davie from her loving husband. Manuscript dated December 10, 1974.


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