{"product_id":"donald-davie-donald-davie-9781857542905","title":"Donald Davie: Poems and Melodramas","description":"Shortly before his death in 1995, Donald Davie sent his publisher the poem\u003cbr\u003e'Our Father'. This ten-part meditation broke a poetic silence which had\u003cbr\u003estretched from 1988, when with \u003ci\u003eTo Scorch or Freeze\u003c\/i\u003e, the writer declared his\u003cbr\u003ework as a poet finished. He continued to write essays and to add from time\u003cbr\u003eto time to his verse 'Melodramas', with their roots in Landor and Leopardi. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is clear that the Muse had not finished with Davie at all; a\u003cbr\u003ebody of poems gathered sufficient for a remarkable book, extending the\u003cbr\u003econcerns of his late years--concerns with 'the sacred', with England, and\u003cbr\u003ewith our vexed age. In \u003ci\u003ePoems and Melodramas\u003c\/i\u003e his voice sounds with a humane\u003cbr\u003einsistence on clarity and definition, and the uneasy certainties of a faith\u003cbr\u003ehard-won.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Davie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1857542908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781857542905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Donald Davie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486205620479,"sku":"9781857542905","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c08cc58f-1af7-4ae1-ad6c-5edcd2dcac5a.jpg?v=1778054351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/donald-davie-donald-davie-9781857542905","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}