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At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

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Rare Bird

on Guy Davenport

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an overview of this Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, who published translations, short stories, and literary essays. not super impressed with this one

Steiner, G. (2009). Rare Bird. In Steiner, G. At the New Yorker. New Directions, pp. 148-156

Japanese paper blossoms

151

Guy Davenport is faithful to Ezra Pound's injunction that prose ought to be at least as well crafted as verse. He is a master of subtle pace. Seemingly short sentences and fragmentary phrases open, via unexpected commas, into sequences as opulent as Japanese paper blossoms dropped in clear water. [...]

just a really pretty passage

—p.151 by George Steiner 9 years, 4 months ago

Guy Davenport is faithful to Ezra Pound's injunction that prose ought to be at least as well crafted as verse. He is a master of subtle pace. Seemingly short sentences and fragmentary phrases open, via unexpected commas, into sequences as opulent as Japanese paper blossoms dropped in clear water. [...]

just a really pretty passage

—p.151 by George Steiner 9 years, 4 months ago

cormorant (en)

(noun) a gluttonous, greedy, or rapacious person OR a type of bird

152

Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"

—p.152 by George Steiner
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9 years, 4 months ago

Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"

—p.152 by George Steiner
unknown
9 years, 4 months ago