Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems and prose of John Davidson / edited by John Sloan.

Author

Davidson, John, 1857-1909.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sloan, John, 1948-

Description

xxix, 206 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• The first Selected Poems of John Davidson for thirty years, this new selection brings together the best of his work both from the 1890s and his later materialist phase. Davidson has lately been reassessed, and he is now generally recognized to ba a poet of major status, a precursor of the modernist movement, and the best Scottish poet between Robert Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid.
• This edition demonstrates the quality and breadth of Davidson's work, and also contains selections from his unpublished letters and prose writings which shed new light on his life and aims as a poet. The editor, who is also John Davidson's biographer, provides a full and fascinating introduction, notes to the poems, and a chronology of Davidson's life, all of which help contextualize the poet and his work.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 1995

Alternative Title

• Works. 1995
• Selected poems and prose

Subject

• Davidson, John, 1857-1909 > Correspondence
• Poets, Scottish > 19th century > Correspondence
• Scotland > Poetry
• England > Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Ayrshire Jock -- 2. The Rev. Habakkuk McGruther, of Cape Wrath, in 1879 -- 3. Thoreau -- 4. Selene Eden, from In a Music-Hall -- 5. Piper, Play! -- 6. 'The Boat is Chafing', from Scaramouch in Naxos -- 7. from Fleet Street Eclogues, first series -- 8. Holiday at Hampton Court -- 9. In the Isle of Dogs -- 10. A Cinque Port -- 11. In Romney Marsh -- 12. Two Songs -- 13. from Spring -- 14. A Northern Suburb -- 15. Thirty Bob A Week -- 16. A Ballad of a Nun -- 17. from A Ballad in Blank Verse of the Making of a Poet -- 18. To My Friend -- 19. To My Enemy -- 20. A Loafer -- 21. [Confessions of a Haunted Mind], from Lammas -- 22. The Last Rose -- 23. A Woman and her Son -- 24. Waiting -- 25. Earth to Earth -- 26. Insomnia -- 27. The Gift -- 28. The Price -- 29. Eclogue: Votary and Artist -- 30. The Outcast -- 31. from The Testaments (1901-1904) -- 32. The World's Failure -- 33. The Last Song -- 34. A Runnable Stag -- 35. London Bridge --
• 36. The Crystal Palace -- 37. from Fleet Street -- 38. Fleet Street: A Song -- 39. The Thames Embankment -- 40. from The Aristocrat of the Road -- 41. from The Testament of Sir Simon Simplex Concerning Automobilism -- 42. Snow -- 43. Two Dogs -- 44. The Wasp -- 45. from The Testament of John Davidson: [In Defence of Suicide] -- Episode - The Last Journey -- 46. [Cain's Final Blessing], from Cain.

ISBN

0198183356

LCCN

95001323

OCLC

ocm31901681

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries