Guy Davenport (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Guy Davenport occupies a rare position in American letters, since he is renowned in so many diverse areas. Not only was he one of contemporary American literature’s most complex short- story writers, but also he was one of its most influential literary critics, translators, and classical scholars. He published more than seventy stories in several collections. In the first four collections, he supplied his own distinctive black-and-white illustrations. He also published a collection of poems and translations, entitled Thasos and Ohio: Poems and...
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