Edward L. Davison



Edward Lewis Davison (1898–1970) was a Scottish poet and academic.

Life
Davison was born in Glasgow. He emigrated to the United States in 1925, and became an academic the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was involved in the Colorado Writers 1937 conference. He was a friend of Robert Frost.

The poet Peter Davison is his son.

He was widely published as a poet in the 1920s, featured in the J. C. Squire anthologies, and became known as a writer of sonnets.

Recognition
His Be Thou At Peace has been set to music by John Raynor.

Poetry

 * Poems. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1920.
 * Poems by Four Authors (J.R. Ackerley, A.Y. Campbell, Edward Davison, and Frank Kendon). 1923.
 * Harvest of Youth. Harper & Brothers, 1926
 * The Ninth Witch. 1932.
 * Collected Poems 1917-1939. Harper & Brothers, 1940.

Non-fiction

 * Some Modern Poets And Other Critical Essays Richard West, 1928, ISBN 978-0-8274-3459-2

Edited

 * Cambridge Poets 1914-1920: an anthology. Cambridge, UK: W. Heffer & Sons, 1920.

Anthologized

 * The best poems of 1922-, Thomas Moult, Brace & co., 1923
 * Oxford Book of Modern Verse (edited by W.B. Yeats).Oxford: Clarendon, 1936.