Further Reading
- Bateson, F. W., "The Analysis of Poetic Texts: Owen's 'Futility' and Davie's 'The Garden Party'," Essays in Criticism 29, No. 2 (April 1979): 156-64. (Compares stylistic aspects of Wilfred Owen's 'Futility' and Davie's 'The Garden Party'.)
- Bedient, Calvin, "On Donald Davie," The Iowa Review 2, No. 2 (Spring 1971): 66-88. (Discusses the defining characteristics of Davie's verse.)
- Bell, Vereen and Laurence Lerner, eds., On Modern Poetry: Essays Presented to Donald Davie. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1988, 256 p. (Collection of critical essays on Davie's poetry and literary criticism.)
- Dekker, George, "Donald Davie: New and Divergent Lines in English Poetry," Agenda 14, No. 2 (Summer 1976): 45-57. (Considers the role of England in Davie's The Shires and compares his work to that of another English poet, Philip Larkin.)
- Dodsworth, Martin, "Donald Davie," Agenda 14, No. 2 (Summer 1976): 15-22. (Traces the development of Davie's verse.)
- Powell, Neil, "Donald Davie: Dissentient Voice," in British Poetry Since 1970: A Critical Survey, edited by Peter Jones and Michael Schmidt, pp. 39-45. New York: Persea Books, 1980. (Assesses Davie's literary reputation.)
- Pritchard, William A., "Donald Davie's Poetry," Poetry CXXII, No. 5 (August 1973): 289-93. (Positive review of Davie's Collected Poems 1950-1970.)
- Reed, John R., "Reflexive Poetry: The Winter Talent of Donald Davie," Western Humanities Review XIX, No. 1 (Winter 1965): 43-54. (Contends that Davie 'does not merely talk about his own poetry, he presents, in the poetic examination of his own talent, the self-discipline that engenders the poems.')
- Schmidt, Michael, "The Poetry of Donald Davie," Critical Quarterly 15, No. 1 (Spring 1973): 81-8. (Provides a thematic and stylistic overview of Davie's verse.)
- Tinkler-Villani, Valeria, "The Poetry of Hell and the Poetry of Paradise: Food for Thought for Translators, Critics, Poets and Other Readers," Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 76, No. 1 (Spring 1994): 75-92. (Analyzes the treatment of Dante in Davie's 'Summer Lightning'.)
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