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Guy Davenport

Guy Davenport (1927–2005), a critic and fiction writer, is best known for two books of essays, The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form. He published many collections of short stories and numerous translations of early Greek poets and playwrights. A professor of English at the University of Kentucky from 1964 to 1990, he was also a painter and illustrator.