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Donald Davis
This cycle of original stories features unusual, remarkable, and dear people whom the author has known. Although everyone has a story, not everybody has a remarkable storyteller like Donald Davis…
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Donald Davie
Deals with nature, religion, self-worth, dreams, the past, travel, criticism, individuality, and hope.
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Donald G. Davis
There’s something about school that infuses the work of Donald Davis and he has collected his all-time favorite school stories in the book. Whether we’re traveling around the world, watching…
Stuart Wright
This annotated bibliography provides the first comprehensive listing of the works of Donald Davie, an internationally known British poet and critic who has become a part of America’s academic and…
Donald Davis grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina hearing stories that most American children have never heard. He did not know he was hearing anything special, but…
Stop talking! You’re supposed to be working on language!
Born on January 1, 1900, on a family farm in the mountains of North Carolina, Medford McGee grows up awestruck by the rapid changes that blazon the New American Century…
Storyteller Donald Davis had a very sensible mother. She had a pretty good idea what boys would do, so she was always on the lookout. As Davis later learned, always…
Audiences at storytelling festivals worldwide are passionate about Donald Davis and his deceptively soft-edged Appalachian stories. Developed in oral performance, Davis'stories resonate in the experiences of his listeners and readers.
Old Man Hawkins was a larger-than-life character among deer hunters, or more precisely among tellers and hearers of tall tales. His self-proclaimed method of hunting deer by holding a mirror…
Learning to drive occasions emotions ranging from reasonable caution to unbridled terror. Learning under the watchful eye of one’s spouse is an added challenge
The sequel to the awardwinning Listening for the Crack of Dawn.
Under Briggflatts is a history of the last thirty years of British poetry with necessary excursions into other areas: criticism, philosophy, translation, and non-British English poetries. It has grown naturally…
Sleep medicine is a modern discipline, but its field of knowledge is already extensive. This results from the progress made in understanding sleep-wake mechanisms, the development of reliable means of…
The author presents eight short stories about his mother and other family members as they grew up in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.
In this book, the award winning author shares humorous childhood memories of Christmas with his family in rural Appalachia.
Who doesn’t remember the holiday sights and sounds and smells of Grandma’s house? The living room aglow with a tree that touches the ceiling, the clatter of silverware and kitchen…
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Donald Davis was inspired to write this book after his wife, who spent her life leading others to the Lord, died of cancer.
He explains how faith has gotten him…
In this collection of essays on American poetry, edited by his widow, Donald Davie starts with Walt Whitman, displaying the poet’s influence on the Modernists and their successors, covering such…
An critical introduction to Yeats, Pound and Eliot by the pre-eminent Modernist critic, Donald Davie.
First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth…
First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth…
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Shortly before his death in 1995, Donald Davie sent his publisher the poem, Our Father . This ten-part meditation broke a seven-year poetic silence. This book contains a body of…
Telling Your Own Stories is designed for families, teachers, counselors anyone who wants to inspire storytelling either in themselves or in others. Through a series of memory prompts, the user…
Donald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms. His passion is for…
Donald Davie is one of the foremost literary critics of his generation and a poet of some renown. His study of the eighteenth-century English hymn reclaims a rich and important…
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This book provides an in-depth examination and discussion concerning the most important financial aspect of laytime which can affect all voyage charter parties and international contracts for the sale of…
Donald Davis’s genius turns a lackluster family vacation into a week to remember. In her spontaneous (and desperate) invention of games like Cow Poker and See Rock City, Mother keeps…
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…
A cycle of twenty stories, each of which is focused on childhood friends, the antics of his neighborhood and school chums, and the mysteries of adult life seen through a…
An affirmation of enduring friendship and an adventure story, all rolled into one. The best friend of our youth has no replacement ever. Though we may start out as two…
Beginning with some of the earliest he heard as a lap-child, Donald Davis recounts Little Red Hen, Jack and Jill, and The House that Jack Built, a Walking Game. Also…
This bookdiscloses the history of relations among members of the Quakers of Philadelphia and Japanese intellectuals, educators, and activists. Throughout the modern era, these ties, often between women, have transformed…
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This is the story of the fighter mission that changed World War II. It is the true story of the man behind Pearl Harbor–Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto–and the courageous young American…
Donald Davie,Doreen Davie
Donald Davie (1922-1995) was a great critic of the 18th century, its literature, its religion and politics, its culture in the broadest sense, because he took his creative bearings from…
Deemed irreplaceable by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that The Army of Northern Virginia…
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The mountains of Northwest Georgia encapsulate a lifetime of rich and varied stories, both of the land and its own natural bounty and the countless people who have drawn sustenance…
Donald Davie (Author, educator, poet, and critic.)
What is meant by ‘Christian’ verse? What must there be in a passage of verse that gives us the right to call it ‘Christian’? These are the questions discussed in…
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This is the true story of a dream holiday that turned into a living nightmare for three tourists, Joan Rogers and her daughters Michelle and Christie.
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In this award-winning home-grown version of The Three Little Pigs, the villain is, naturally, a fox - the Appalachian red fox, who any local hunter will tell you is a…
To mark the centenary of Donald Davie’s birth, Carcanet publishes a new Selected Poems edited by Michael Schmidt and introduced by Sinead Morrissey.
This second supplement to DALB, the Dictionary of American Library Biography (1978), adds 77 notable, deceased members of the library and archival communities to the 302 entries in the main…
