Guy Davenport
Author
Series
Nonpareil book volume 78
Language
English
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)...
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Guy Davenport's cerebral and innovative stories intricately assemble centuries' worth of images and ideas Guy Davenport's stories seamlessly illuminate his vast knowledge of theology, philosophy, botany, and art, in his singular style of finding harmony in the juxtaposition of different themes. Whether critiquing the politics of socialist realist art in "We Often Think of Lenin at the Clothespin Factory," revisiting biblical tales in "Jonah," or depicting...