The Geography of the Imagination – Forty Essays
Guy Davenport; Introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan
David R. Godine
In this fascinating book, you’ll find 40 thoroughly thought-provoking essays on history, art, and literature.
These from one of the most incisive and most exhilarating critical minds of the 20th century.
Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American poly- math. 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 civilisation.
In this collection, Guy Davenport serves as the…