Guy Davenport

Guy Mattison Davenport (1927 - 2005) was an American writer, translator, painter, illustrator, intellectual, and teacher.

Fugitive Pieces (one version)

Davenport wrote introductions or contributions to many books: Jack Sharpless's Presences of Mind; Will McBride's Coming of Age; Paul Cadmus's Drawings; Charles Burchfield's Charles Burchfield's Seasons; Simon Dinnerstein's Paintings and Drawings; Anne Carson's Glass, Irony, and God; Jonathan Williams's Palpable Elysium, Ear in Bartram's Tree, Elite/Elate Poems and tribute to Edward Dahlberg; Lenard D. Moore's Forever Home; the first volume of Paul Metcalf's Collected Works; Jonathan Greene's tribute to Jonathan Williams, JW/50; Daniel Haberman's Lug of Days to Come; Burton Raffel's Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments; James Laughlin's Man in the Wall; Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Don Quixote; Ralph Eugene Meatyard's Father Louie and Ralph Eugene Meatyard; Apertures monographs on Eudora Welty's and Ralph Eugene Meatyard's photographs; University of Virginia's small monograph on Lafcadio Hearn; Elizabeth Turner Hutton's Americans in Paris (1921-31): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, & Alexander Calder; Riva Castleman's Art of the Forties; Ronald Johnson's Ark: The Foundations and Valley of Many-Colored Grasses; O. Henry's Cabbages & Kings and Selected Stories (which he also edited); and his selection of Louis Agassiz's scientific writings (The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz) (which he also edited). Some of these pieces were included in Davenport's collections of essays.

Related Topics:
Jack Sharpless - Will McBride - Paul Cadmus - Charles Burchfield - Simon Dinnerstein - Anne Carson - Jonathan Williams - Elysium - Edward Dahlberg - Lenard D. Moore - Paul Metcalf - Daniel Haberman - Burton Raffel - Pagan - James Laughlin - Vladimir Nabokov - Don Quixote - Ralph Eugene Meatyard - Aperture - Eudora Welty - University of Virginia - Lafcadio Hearn - Elizabeth Turner Hutton - Paris - 1921 - Man Ray - Gerald Murphy - Stuart Davis - Alexander Calder - Riva Castleman - Ronald Johnson - O. Henry - Louis Agassiz

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