Description: Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth century. 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.
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Book Title: Geography of the Imagination : Forty Essays
Number of Pages: 592 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Godine, David R.
Topic: Ancient & Classical, Books & Reading, Essays
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Author: Guy Davenport
Item Length: 7.5 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
