Edward Davison (poet)

{{Short description|Scottish poet and critic}}

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{{Infobox writer|birth_date=1898|death_date=1970|genre=poetry|notable_works=Be Thou At Peace|alma_mater=St John's College, Cambridge}}

Edward Lewis Davison (1898–1970) was a Scottish poet and critic, born in Glasgow, who later moved to the United States.

Davison grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne.'Edward Davison, Poet and Teacher', New York Times, 9 February 1970. [https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/09/archives/edward-davison-poet-and-teacher-exdean-at-hunter-prolific-writer-is.html] In 1914 he joined the navy, where he rose to lieutenant. After the end of World War I he matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge on a scholarship; it was while at Cambridge that he edited an anthology of student poetry and met the writer J. B. Priestley, who would remain a lifelong friend.Cook, Judith, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31565 "Priestley, John Boynton (1894–1984)"], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, September 2004. Retrieved 20 May 2018 {{subscription required}} Davison emigrated to the United States in 1925, and became an academic, teaching at Vassar College, the University of Miami, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was involved in the Colorado Writers 1937 conference. He was a friend of Robert Frost.[https://books.google.com/books?id=rHWqRHJiAlwC&dq=Edward+Davison+%28poet%29&pg=RA1-PA296 Robert Frost: A Life], Jay Parini, Macmillan, 2000, {{ISBN|9780805063417}}

The poet Peter Davison is his son.{{cite web| url = http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1647| title = Peter Davison {{!}} Poetry Foundation}}

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.

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