The Hunter Gracchus And Other Papers on Literature and Art
by Davenport, GuyEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1997-09-01
Publisher(s): Counterpoint
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Summary
Open the pages of The Hunter Gracchus and step into the remarkable mind of Guy Davenport, one of this country's most provocative writers. Moving effortlessly from snake handling to Wallace Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature.
Author Biography
Guy Davenport was a writer, illustrator, teacher, and scholar. He is best known for his modernist-style short stories, but his range of works is wide, spanning poetry, translation, and criticism. He was a professor of English for three decades, having taught at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky.
Table of Contents
| Introductory Note | |
| The Hunter Gracchus | p. 1 |
| On Reading | p. 19 |
| Tom and Gene | p. 32 |
| Taking Up Serpents | p. 47 |
| Shaker Light | p. 52 |
| Joyce the Reader | p. 60 |
| II Timothy | p. 65 |
| Civilization and Its Opposite in the 1940s | p. 76 |
| Style as Protagonist in Donald Barthelme | p. 103 |
| Stanley Spencer and David Jones | p. 112 |
| Wheel Ruts | p. 127 |
| Eros, His Intelligence | p. 135 |
| A Letter to the Masterbuilder | p. 144 |
| Two Notes on Wallace Stevens | p. 154 |
| Jack Sharpless | p. 159 |
| Thoreau and the Dispersion of Seeds | p. 162 |
| Life, Chance, and Charles Darwin | p. 167 |
| Lenard Moore | p. 176 |
| Guernica | p. 180 |
| Late Gertrude | p. 187 |
| O. Henry | p. 192 |
| Gerald Barrax | p. 205 |
| Calvino: Six Memos for the Next Millennium | p. 209 |
| Journal I | p. 213 |
| Gibbon | p. 223 |
| Journal II | p. 228 |
| What Are Revolutions? | p. 235 |
| Walt Whitman and Ronald Johnson | p. 249 |
| Grant Wood's The Good Influence | p. 262 |
| Writing United and Retied as Drawing | p. 266 |
| The Drawings of Paul Cadmus | p. 275 |
| Micrographs | p. 297 |
| Mr. Hawthorne, of Salem | p. 305 |
| The Comic Muse | p. 310 |
| Travel Reconsidered | p. 314 |
| Keeping Time | p. 318 |
| The Sage of Slabsides | p. 320 |
| John Cheever in Paradise | p. 324 |
| Stephen Crane | p. 328 |
| Ruskin According to Proust | p. 333 |
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