Guy Davenport (1927–2005)

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1. Guy Davenport

   Author of The Geography of the Imagination, Da Vinci's Bicycle, A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories

2. Hugh Kenner

   Author of The Pound Era, A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers, Flaubert, Joyce And Beckett: The Stoic Comedians (Lannan Selection)

3. William H. Gass

   Author of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, Habitations of the Word: Essays

4. Ezra Pound

   Author of Selected Poems, 1908–1959, ABC of Reading, Guide to Kulchur (New Directions Paperbook, Ndp257)

5. Anne Carson

   Author of Eros the Bittersweet, Decreation, Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan

6. Geoffrey Hill

   Author of Geoffrey Hill's New and Collected Poems: 1952-1992, The Triumph of Love, Speech! Speech!

7. Louis Zukofsky

   Author of "a", A Test of Poetry (Zukovsky, Louis. V. 1.), Ferdinand

8. William Carlos Williams

   Author of Paterson, In the American Grain, The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

9. Harry Mathews

   Author of The Conversions (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)), The Human Country: New and Collected Stories (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)), The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

10. Thomas Bernhard

    Author of Correction, Concrete, Gargoyles

11. Jonathan Williams

    Author of The Magpie's Bagpipe, An Ear in Bartram's Tree: Selected Poems 1957-1967, Blues & roots, rue & bluets : a garland for the southern Appalachians

12. Charles Olson

    Author of The Maximus Poems, Call Me Ishmael, Selected Writings

13. Edward Dahlberg

    Author of Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg, The sorrows of Priapus; consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth, The confessions of Edward Dahlberg

14. Ronald Johnson

    Author of Radi Os, Ark, The Book of the Green Man

15. Paul Celan

    Author of Poems of Paul Celan, Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Wesleyan Poetry), Collected Prose

16. Michael Dirda

    Author of Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education, Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments

17. Edmund White

    Author of Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, Caracole

18. Robert Walser

    Author of Jakob von Gunten, Selected Stories

19. Michel Leiris

    Author of Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility, The Rules of the Game: Scratches (Leiris, Michel, Regle Du Jeu. 1.), Aurora

20. W. H. Auden

    Author of The Dyer's Hand, Forewords and Afterwords, A Certain World