He often wrote on the technique of poetry, both in books such as Purity of Diction in English Verse, and in smaller articles such as 'Some Notes on Rhythm in Verse'.
The book was written for the most part in Plymouth, and Davie put into it much of what he had learned at Cambridge.
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Purity of Diction in English Verse was written by Donald Davie and first published by Chatto and Windus in 1952.
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