To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred

by Donald Davie and Andrew Mellon Professor in Humanities & English Donald Davie Comp

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Here Davie, a writer attuned to both the changes of the modern world and a living literary tradition, turns to the lapsed poetic practice of translation and imitation of the Psalms of David. The result is a series of poems that speak powerfully of moral indignation and spiritual discovery within the complex of modernity.

"Few modern poets have managed to achieve Donald Davie's sense of human worth."--Times Higher Educational Supplement...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226137554

ISBN13:9780226137551

Release Date:September 1988

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:62 Pages

Weight:0.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.7" x 8.5"

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