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Donald Grady Davidson (August 8, 1893 – April 25, 1968) was an American poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. An English professor at Vanderbilt University from 1920 to 1965, he was a founding member of the Fugitives and the overlapping group Southern Agrarians, two literary groups based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Davidson published five collections of poetry The Outland Piper (1924), The Tall Man (1927), Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems (1938), The Long Street: Poems (1961), and Collected Poems: 1922–1961 (1966). In the 1920s, Davidson co-founded and co-edited the influential journal The Fugitive.
Donald Davidson was an American poet, essayist, and teacher who warned against technology and idealized the agrarian, pre-Civil War American South. While attending Vanderbilt University, Nashville (B.A., 1917; M.A., 1922), Davidson became one of the Fugitives, a group of Southern writers determined.
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Teach Me. By Donald (Grady) Davidson. Teach me, old World, your passion of slow change, Your calm of stars, watching the turn of earth, Patient of man, and never thinking strange. The mad red crash of each new system’s birth. Teach me, for I would know your beauty’s way. That waits and changes with each changing sun,
Donald Davidson was an American poet, teacher and literary critic with a strong social conscience. He was one of the founding members of a group called The Fugitives.
"Lee in the Mountains" is a 1934 poem by the American writer Donald Davidson. It is 121 lines long and consists of a stream of consciousness from the former Confederate general Robert E. Lee, covering his internal conflicts late in his life, when the American Civil War was over and he was president of the Washington College.
Poems, 1922-1961 was first published in 1966. This volume contains a collection of the most important work of Donald Davidson, one of America’s greatest contemporary poets.
