The Hunter Gracchus And Other Papers on

Open the pages of The Hunter Gracchus and step into the remarkable mind of Guy Davenport, one of this country's most provocative writers. Moving effortlessly from snake handling to Wallace Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature.

Guy Davenport was a writer, illustrator, teacher, and scholar. He is best known for his modernist-style short stories, but his range of works is wide, spanning poetry, translation, and criticism. He was a professor of English for three decades, having taught at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky.

Introductory Note
The Hunter Gracchus	p. 1
On Reading	p. 19
Tom and Gene	p. 32
Taking Up Serpents	p. 47
Shaker Light	p. 52
Joyce the Reader	p. 60
II Timothy	p. 65
Civilization and Its Opposite in the 1940s	p. 76
Style as Protagonist in Donald Barthelme	p. 103
Stanley Spencer and David Jones	p. 112
Wheel Ruts	p. 127
Eros, His Intelligence	p. 135
A Letter to the Masterbuilder	p. 144
Two Notes on Wallace Stevens	p. 154
Jack Sharpless	p. 159
Thoreau and the Dispersion of Seeds	p. 162
Life, Chance, and Charles Darwin	p. 167
Lenard Moore	p. 176
Guernica	p. 180
Late Gertrude	p. 187
O. Henry	p. 192
Gerald Barrax	p. 205
Calvino: Six Memos for the Next Millennium	p. 209
Journal I	p. 213
Gibbon	p. 223
Journal II	p. 228
What Are Revolutions?	p. 235
Walt Whitman and Ronald Johnson	p. 249
Grant Wood's The Good Influence	p. 262
Writing United and Retied as Drawing	p. 266
The Drawings of Paul Cadmus	p. 275
Micrographs	p. 297
Mr. Hawthorne, of Salem	p. 305
The Comic Muse	p. 310
Travel Reconsidered	p. 314
Keeping Time	p. 318
The Sage of Slabsides	p. 320
John Cheever in Paradise	p. 324
Stephen Crane	p. 328
Ruskin According to Proust	p. 333
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