The Boston Globe, February 25th, 1987
EVERY FORCE EVOLVES A FORM, by Guy Davenport. North Point Press. 192 pp. $16.95. Were he a Flemish painter of old, Guy Davenport would come down to us as The Master of the Tangent. In the title essay of this delectable collection of 20 pieces, for example, he proceeds from Wordsworth's robin to Poe's raven, to Whitman's osprey, to Hopkins' kestrel, connecting these into images of birds as mediators between humanity and spirits of the air, "a dance of forms to a perennial spiritual force." The operative word, however, is "connecting." Only connect. The present volume is relatively minor Davenpo...
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