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Article: Some epitaphs for Guy Davenport (23 November 1927-4 January 2005).(IN MEMORIAM)(Obituary)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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ARCHAIC
The least of his epitaphs--but as true as any of the others that might be given him--would name Guy Davenport his century's greatest translator of the archaic Greeks.
RADICAL
In his lovely essay "Finding," Davenport roots his entire intellectual bent in the Sunday afternoon trips his family made through the countryside of South Carolina hunting for Indian arrowheads. His was a radical imagination--radix, root--searching out the entangled roots and genealogies of whatever phenomenon caught his attention.
BOOKS
I have never met anyone as widely read. Of course he had all of Pound, Joyce, and Eliot at his fingertips. He ...