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Questioning Minds; The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
Edward M. Burns, editor
868pp., 949pp.; 23.6 x 16.1 cm each. Orange cloth boards stamped in black to front and down spine. Paper covered card slipcase.
Published Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2018
Part of Contemporaries, II
From the library of A. David Moody
“Shall two know the same in their knowing? Thought is a labyrinth.” Thus ends The Pound Era with two quotes, the first, of The Cantos, the second from a letter from Davenport to Kenner in 1963. These one thousand plus letters, with extensive endnotes, document the rare harmonising of two equally isolated thinkers. Together Kenner & Davenport liberated each other into publishing works composed as they had learned to from the modernists, and not as the universities then expected them. A fine set, in the original slipcase.