The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays - Softcover

Davenport, Guy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567920802 ISBN 13: 9781567920802

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1997

Synopsis

Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the 20th century.

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. Davenport provides 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 has he seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything in print, he also has the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to make the connections, to see how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization.

As The Los Angeles Times Book Review wrote, “There is no way to prepare yourself for reading Guy Davenport. You stand in awe before his knowledge of the archaic and his knowledge of the modern. Even more, you stand in awe of the connections he can make between the archaic and the modern; he makes the remote familiar and the familiar fundamental.”

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Before the internet, Google, and hyperlinks, Guy Davenport was the original polymath, perhaps the last great American polymath, who provided the 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 has he seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything in print, he also has the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to make the connections, to see how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization. He serves as our guide through the jungles of history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking.

Edition details

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567920802
• ISBN 13: 9781567920802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384