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Guy Davenport

Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport (1927–2005) was a writer and painter born in Anderson, South Carolina. He attended Duke, Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, and Harvard (PhD). He taught at Harvard, Haverford, and the University of Kentucky. His awards included the Morton Dawen Zabel Award for Fiction by the American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Fellowship.


Guy Davenport on Ronald Johnson’s Transcendentalist Poetry

“The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world.”
July 7, 2023  By Guy Davenport
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