Guy Davenport papers [manuscript], 1956-1983.

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Guy Davenport papers [manuscript], 1956-1983.

Letters to Laurence Scott, 1956-1983, discuss Davenport's life and literary endeavors. Topics include teaching at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky; his interest in Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Louis Agassiz; his reading; his translations from the Greek; his friends, students and family; and his sexual encounters. Stan Brakhage, Hugh Kenner, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Jonathan Williams, and Louis Zukofsky are mentioned frequently. Several letters are illustrated. The collection also contains six haiku, 1960-1961, by Davenport, and nine drawings.

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University of Virginia. Library

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