Donald Davie (essay date 1991)


Donald Davie (essay date 1991)

SOURCE: Davie, Donald. “Postmodernism and Lorine Niedecker.” PN Review 18, no. 2 (November-December 1991): 43-45.

[In the following essay, Davie reflects back on previous critical arguments he has made on Niedecker's “Lake Superior”.]

Ten years ago, when considerations of Niedecker's poetry were few and far between, I published in PN Review a brief appreciation of her ‘Lake Superior’ under the title, ‘Lyric Minimum & Epic Scope’. Quite by accident and much to my astonishment I discover...

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