Edward Lewis Davison was a Scottish

Scottish people

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 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and critic

Critic

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, born in Glasgow

Glasgow

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. He emigrated to the United States in 1925, and became an academic the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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, where he was involved in the Colorado Writers 1937 conference. He was a friend of Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...

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The poet Peter Davison

Peter Davison (poet)

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

 is his son.

He was widely published as a poet in the 1920s, featured in the J. C. Squire

J. C. Squire

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 anthologies, and became known as a writer of sonnet

Sonnet

A sonnet is one of several forms of poetry that originate in Europe, mainly Provence and Italy. A sonnet commonly has 14 lines. The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning "little song" or "little sound"...

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

John Raynor

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Works

• Cambridge Poets 1914-1920: an Anthology (1920); BiblioBazaar, 2009, ISBN 9781117362625
• Some Modern Poets And Other Critical Essays Richard West, 1928, ISBN 9780827434592
• Collected Poems 1917-1939 Harper & Brothers, 1940
• Poems G. Bell, 1920
• Harvest of Youth Harper & brothers, 1926
• The Ninth Witch (1932).

Anthologies

• The best poems of 1922-, Thomas Moult, Brace & co., 1923
• Poems by Four Authors (1923) with J. R. Ackerley
  J. R. Ackerley
  J. R. Ackerley was arts editor of The Listener, the weekly magazine of the BBC...
  
  , A. Y. Campbell
  A. Y. Campbell
  Archibald Young Campbell was a classical scholar, translator, and published poet of the 1920s and 1930s.-Life:Campbell was born at Blantyre, near Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1885, and received his education at Hamilton Academy and Fettes College, in Edinburgh.In 1904 he went up to St...
  
  , and Frank Kendon
  Frank Kendon
  Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon was an English writer, poet and academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1948. He was a published poet in the 1920s and later a writer of stories and a novel. From 1935 to 1954 he...
  
  

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