The Hunter Gracchus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Guy Davenport
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Culture, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Science or scientists, Books, Reading
The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art is the third collection of essays by Guy Davenport, whose literary scholarship, fiction, translations, poetry and drawing have enriched American culture for more than four decades. Few of his essays, in the present volume or the two preceding—The Geography of the Imagination (1981) and Every Force Evolves a Form (1987)—require the reader to absorb as pedestrian an opening line as the one above.
Davenport’s rich mind, attention to imagination’s power, vast learning, and attractive style have...
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