William Virgil Davis
William Virgil Davis is an American poet.
He has published poems in Poetry, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly, and Shenandoah, among others. He has also published several books of literary criticism, as well as critical essays in numerous periodicals. He is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Baylor University.
Biography
William Virgil Davis was born in the United States of America in 1940, in Ohio. He studied at Ohio University. He has lived and taught in Austria, Denmark and Wales for extended periods of time.Awards
- 1979 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize
- 1984 Calliope Press Chapbook Prize
- 2009 New Criterion Poetry Prize
- 2010 Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry
Poetry
;CollectionsDismantlements of Silence : Poems Selected and New The Dark Hours, which won the Calliope Press Chapbook PrizeWinter LightLandscape and JourneyThe Bones Poems;List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
| The gardens of the Villa D'Este | 2023 |
- Artful Dodge, Issue 26/27 THE BRIDGE: A JOURNAL OF FICTION & POETRY VOLUME, Jack Zucker, 6 NUMBER 2 FALL / WINTER 1997FOUR QUARTERS, John J. Keenan, VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2, SECOND SERIES FALL, 1994SPECIAL ISSUE: POETRY TOUR GUIDE U.S. 62, Pudding 44, Summer 2002, 54 pagesThe Staying, ''Leaves, and The Singing,, The Gettsburg Review, Autumn Spring 2002The Other, AGNI 59, 2004A Vision in Late Afternoon'', The Gettsburg Review, Autumn 2005
Criticism
- George Whitefield's Journals, 1737–1741, Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints,1969. Editor
- Understanding Robert Bly, University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
- Robert Bly: The Poet and His Critics, Camden House Publishers, 1994.