BRUCE BAWER ON GUY DAVENPORT (1927-2005)
It is hard to believe that Guy Davenport is dead, for few writers in our time have seemed so abundantly alive. For decades a professor of English at the University of Kentucky, he leaves behind an oeuvre that is one long lesson in the history of civilization, and to read any of it-story, essay, or translation-is to be enthralled by his unflagging intellectual energy and engagement. Even the writings of Davenport's last years (he died in January at the age of seventy-seven) read like the work of an idealistic young teacher, determined to awaken students to the joys of thought, literature, and art.
Yet they are also the work of a sage. …
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