Donald Alfred Davie

Donald Alfred Davie (born July 17, 1922, Barnsley, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Sept. 18, 1995, Exeter, Devon) was a British poet, literary critic, and teacher who was a major conservative influence on British poetry in the 1950s. Davie served in the Royal Navy during World War II and obtained bachelor’s (1947) and doctoral (1951) degrees from the University of Cambridge. He taught at Trinity College, Dublin (1950–57), Cambridge (1958–64), the University of Essex (1964–68), and Stanford University,...