TLS to Fellow Poet and Translator of the Classics, Peter Whigham. January 18, 1984. Writing on Vanderbilt University letterhead, where he was a visiting professor, Davie launches into specific critical praise of Whigham's work: "As I apprehend the matter, you have staked all of Dante's terseness, his rapidity, and for the sake of that will to violence to the syntax of current English ... What a pleasure to hear English verse rendered with crispness."
Davie goes on to say that he recommended Whigham for a Guggenheim Grant. Some 600 articulate and unified words. Fine.
TLS to Fellow Poet and Translator of the Classics, Peter Whigham. January 18, 1984. Writing on Vanderbilt University letterhead, where he was a visiting professor, Davie launches into specific critical praise of Whigham's work: "As I apprehend the matter, you have staked all of Dante's terseness, his rapidity, and for the sake of that will to violence to the syntax of current English ... What a pleasure to hear English verse rendered with crispness."
Davie goes on to say that he recommended Whigham for a Guggenheim Grant. Some 600 articulate and unified words. Fine.
