Poems, 1922-1961

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Poems, 1922-1961 was first published in 1966.This volume contains a collection of the most important work of Donald Davidson, one of Americas greatest contemporary poets. The selection range from the time of his association with the Fugitive group of Southern writers during the 1920s to his most recently published book of poems, The Long Street (1961). The Tall Men, first published in 1927, is included here in its revised version of 1938. Among the other early poems are selections from An Outland Piper (1924) and from Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems (1938).The critic Louis D. Rubin, Jr. calls this the life work of a master poet. He comments: These poems dont date; they represent no outmoded school or clique . . . and the new poems have a simplicity about them that does not hide so much as it enhances their rich imaginativeness and wealth of imagery. These are the poems of a man of great sensitivity and an exciting imagination and command of the language.

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Donald Davidson was a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. As a member of the Nashville Fugitive group of poets he was one of the founders and editors of their magazine, The Fugitive, 1922-1925. With Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Stark Young, John Gould Fletcher, Frank L. Owsley, and other Southerners, he contributed to Ill Take My Stand: The South and Agrarian Tradition, a significant work dealing with the problems of the South, published in 1930.