Davenport, Guy [Mattison, Jr.]
Davenport, Guy [Mattison, Jr.]( 1927–2004),born in South Carolina, received his B.A. from Duke and a B.Litt. from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught English at U.S. universities, including the University of Kentucky, since 1963. His publications include a translation of Sappho (1965), and studies of modern foreign writings and of part of Pound's Cantos (1983). His own creative writing includes Tatlin! (1974), Da Vinci's Bicycle (1979), Eclogues (1981), Troise Caprices (1982), and Apples and Pears (1984), short fiction featuring cultural life from ancient to modern times, including notable figures of the arts as well as personally conceived individuals, viewed in ways both esoteric and exotic. He has also written The Geography of the Imagination (1981), essays ranging from Homer to Louis Zukofsky, and Every Force Evolves a Form (1987), more general essays on a wide scope of authors.
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