My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don’t think any teacher should try to ‘teach an author,’ but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do. Guy Davenport Read Quote
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated. Guy Davenport Read Quote
There’s nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. Guy Davenport Read Quote
