Donald Davie

Donald Alfred Davie (1922–1995) was an English poet and literary critic associated with the Movement, known for his philosophical and abstract poetry that often evoked landscapes, as well as his austere, Neo-Augustan style and conservative influence on 1950s British poetry.[1][2] Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, to Baptist parents, he served in the Royal Navy during World War II in northern Russia, studied at Cambridge University, and later taught at institutions including Trinity College Dublin and became a fellow of the British Academy.[1][3][4]