Zukofsky, Louis - Donald Davie (essay date 1965)
Donald Davie (essay date 1965)
SOURCE: "After Sedley, after Pound," in The Nation, New York, Vol. 201, No. 14, November 1, 1965, pp. 311-13.
[Davie is a highly regarded English poet, critic, educator, and translator. During the 1950s he was associated with the Movement, a group of poets who emphasized restrained language, traditional syntax, and the moral and social implications of poetic content. In the following review of All: The Collected Short Poems, 1923-1958, Davie compares Zukofsky both to writers of the 1930s who apotheosized intellect and the manipulation of language and to the tradition represented by Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.]
For those who need to know that Picasso could draw a likeness if he chose, Exhibit A is Zukofsky after Sir Charles Sedley:
Would he had writ thus always? Hardly. The high gloss on this elegant pastiche obscures rather than clarifies—certainly on a first reading and even...
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