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The geography of the imagination : forty essays / Guy Davenport ; introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.A86 D38 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davenport, Guy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Arts.
- Art criticism.
- American essays--20th century.
- American essays.
- Art--essays.
- Art.
- Imagination--essays.
- Imagination.
- American prose literature--20th century.
- American prose literature.
- art criticism.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 567 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Godine Nonpareil, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, 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 in print, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization. In this collection, Guy 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, Lois 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 award-winning essayist John Jeremiah Sullivan."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The geography of the imagination
- The symbol of the archaic
- Another odyssey
- The house that Jack built
- Prehistoric eyes
- Whitman
- Olson
- Zukofsky
- Marianne Moore
- Spinoza's tulips
- Do you have a poem book on e. e. Cummings?
- Seeing Shelley plain
- Persephone's Ezra
- The Pound vortex
- Ezra Pound, 1885-1972
- "Trees"
- Jonathan Williams
- Ronald Johnson
- Poetry's golden
- Where poems come from
- Ishmael's double
- Louis Agassiz
- That faire field of Enna
- Charles Ives
- Ozymandias
- Christ's cunning Rimesmith
- Joyce's forest of symbols
- The man without contemporaries
- Narrative tone and form
- Tchelitchew
- Jack Yeats the elder
- Wittgenstein
- Hobbitry
- Dictionary
- No, but I've read the book
- The anthropolgy of table manners from geophagy onward
- The Indian and his image
- Finding
- Ralph Eugene Meatyard
- Ernst Machs Max Ernst.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Davenport, Guy. Geography of the imagination
- ISBN:
- 9781567927771
- 1567927777
- OCLC:
- 1382340619
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