Two Ways Out of Whitman Dick Porter and the owl of Minerva

and the owl of Minerva

Cape Town International Festival

With themes as diverse as immortality

Written by an art advisor and former gallerist with an insider’s perspective

Two Ways Out of Whitman Dick Porter and the owl of MinervaThis new collection of essays on American poetry by Donald Davie (1922 1995) displays again 'the scale and range' of one of the great 'understanders' of poetry of our century, here fulfilling his chosen role as bridge builder between poets, poetries and cultures. Something distinctively American begins with Whitman, and Davie takes his bearings from the nineteenth century writer whose long shadow fell so decisively on the Modernists and their