any book of mine as long as the copyright endures." The assumption that he took his own life is consistent with what is known of his temperament and his ideas. In The Testament of John Davidson, published the year before his death, he anticipates this fate: "None should outlive his power. . . . Who kills Himself subdues the conqueror of kings; Exempt from death is he who takes his life; My time has come." Influence on other poets Davidson's poetry was a key early influence on important Modernist poets, in particular, his compatriot Hugh MacDiarmid and Wallace Stevens. T.S. Eliot was especially fond of the poem 'Thirty Bob a Week' (In Ballads and Songs (1894)). Davidson's poem "In the Isle of Dogs", for example, is a clear intertext of later poems such as Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Stevens' "The Idea of Order at Key West". Quotes "This is an age of Bovril" Works The North Wall (1885) Diabolus Amans (1885), verse drama Bruce (1886 ) a drama in five acts Smith (1888) a tragedy Plays (1889) An Unhistorical Pastoral, a Romantic Farce Scaramouch in Naxos Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson, (1890) with 23 Original Illustrations by Harry Furniss, Ward & Downey, Ltd., London. The Great Men, And a Practical Novelist (1891) Illustrated by E. J. Ellis. Ward & Downey, Ltd., London. In a Music Hall, and other Poems (1891) Ward & Downey, Ltd., London. Laura Ruthven's Widowhood (with C. J. Wills), (1892) Fleet Street Eclogues (1893)] The Knight of the Maypole, (1903) Sentences and Paragraphs (1893) Ballads and Songs (1894) John Lane Publishers, London Baptist Lake (1894) Ward & Downey, Ltd., London. A Random Itinerary (1894) A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender (1895) St. George's Day (1895) Fleet Street Eclogues (Second Series) (1896) Miss Armstrong's and Other Circumstances (1896) The Pilgrimage of Strongsoul and Other Stories (1896) New Ballads (1897) Godfrida, a play (1898) The Last Ballad (1899) Self's the Man, a tragi-comedy, (1901) The Testament of a Man Forbid (1901) The Testament of a Vivisector (1901) The Testament of an Empire Builder (1902) A Rosary, (1903) Grant Richards, London The Knight of the Maypole: A Comedy in Four Acts (1903) The Testament of a Prime Minister (1904) The Ballad of a Nun (1905) The Theatrocrat: a Tragic Play of Church and State, (1905) Holiday and other poems, with a note