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Peter Davison


Born
in New York, New York, The United States
June 27, 1928

Died
December 29, 2004

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Peter Davison was an American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher.

Davison worked as an editor at the Atlantic Monthly Press and Houghton Mifflin. He was also poetry editor for Atlantic Monthly. He was part of a literary milieu that included Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, and Donald Hall.

In 1963, his first book of poetry, Breaking of the Day, was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award by Dudley Fitts.

Breathing Room won the Massachusetts Book Award.

Among the authors Davison edited were Ward Just, Farley Mowat, William Least Heat-Moon, and Robert Coles.

Average rating: 4.36 · 3,634 ratings · 318 reviews · 22 distinct works
The Fading Smile: Poets in ...

3.82 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
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Breathing Room: Poems

3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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The Poems of Peter Davison

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions
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Half Remembered

2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions
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Songs of the British Music ...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Praying wrong: New and sele...

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One of the Dangerous Trades...

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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Walking the Boundaries: Poe...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1974 — 5 editions
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The City and the Island: Poems

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1966
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Barn fever and other poems

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