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Geography of the Imagination

Guy Davenport
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  • ISBN 9781567927771
  • Dimensions: 133 x 191mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Feb 2024
  • Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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“One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”—Washington Post

Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present—and pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything ever written, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization.

Davenport serves as the reader’s guide through history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. In these forty essays we find fresh thinking on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Melville, Tolkien, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Louis Zukovsky, and many others. Each essay is a tour of the history of ideas and imagination, written with wit and startling erudition.

This Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
About Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport was a writer of fiction, illustrator, teacher, scholar, translator, poet, and critic. Mr. Davenport published over 40 books, among them collections of short stories, translations from the Greek, illustrated works, a novel, and critical studies on literature, culture, and art. John Jeremiah Sullivan lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, and is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of the book Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son and the essay collection Pulphead. His awards include the Whiting Award, the National Magazine Award, the James Beard Writing Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize.

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