The autobiographical essays gathered here, pleasingly meandering and chatty, are among Davenport’s most accessible writings. At their best, they offer a direct road into the heart of his sensibility: omnivorous, alert to unsuspected revelations, but also committed to devoting sustained attention to whatever is under his gaze. He was not a humble man, but there is an essential modesty to his intuition that knowledge of any given thing is inexhaustible.
Monday, September 01, 2014
Aesthetic commitment …
… modern lover - bookforum.com / current issue. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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