Questioning Minds The Letters Of Guy Davenport And Hugh Kenner Guy Davenport by Guy Davenport, Hugh Kenner, Edward M. Burns (editor) 9781619021815, 1619021811 instant download after payment.

Hugh Kenner (1923–2003) & Guy Davenport (1927–2005) first met in September 1953 when each gave a paper on Ezra Pound at Columbia University. They met again in the fall of 1957, & their correspondence begins with Kenner's letter of March 7, 1958. In the next forty-four years, they exchanged over one thousand letters. An extraordinary document of a literary friendship that lasted half a century, the letters represent one of the great and―with the dawn of the age of text & Twitter―one of the last major epistolary exchanges of its kind. Students & lovers of modernism will find, in the letters, matchless engagements with Eliot, Joyce, Beckett, Basil Bunting, Charles Tomlinson, R. Buckminster Fuller, Stan Brakhage, Jonathan Williams, & the American modernists William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, & Louis Zukofsky. The correspondence ends with Kenner's letter of August 9, 2002, lamenting how they had drifted apart.

The extensive notes & cross-referencing of archival sources in Questioning Minds are a major contribution to the study of literary modernism. The letters contained within explore how new works were conceived & developed by both writers. They record faithfully, & with candor, the urgency that each brought to his intellectual & creative pursuits. Here is a singular opportunity to follow the development of their unique fictions & essays.