A Table of Green Fields (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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It is not altogether surprising, though it is nevertheless disconcerting, that even after the publication of twenty previous books Guy Davenport should not be better known, more widely read, and more frequently anthologized than he is. There are of course reasons, not least his being a scholar and a writer’s writer. Six of his twenty books are, after all, translations of ancient Greek poets; two others collections of his own poetry; one “a specimen book” of Louis Agassiz’s scientific writings; three are collections of essays on various, mainly literary topics. Of Davenport’s...

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