THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION. Forty Essays.

Literature & Fiction

Davenport, Guy

Essays & Correspondence

Macmillan

The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

An epistolary exchange that highlights two singular intellects, their disparate approaches to literature and their mutual admiration. This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author of The Geography of the Imagination. More than simply detailing an author/publisher relationship, these letters depict two fine minds educating and supporting each other in the service of literature.

Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

Laughlin, James

Biographies & Memoirs

W.W.Norton&Company

Text: English, Greek (translation)

Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Late Greek Bronze Age (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

History & Criticism

Univ. Of California Pr.

Archilochus, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C.

University of California Press

Essays discuss classical and contemporary literature, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, The Odyssey, James Joyce, dictionaries, poetry, and other topics

THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATI

Pantheon

The American comments on the modern age, mechanization, and the division between animate and inanimate in this selection of his fiction

Tatlin!

SCRIBNER'S.

A Table of Green Fields includes ten stories, variously about the painter Henry Scott Tuke, the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, Kafka, Thoreau, along with some imaginary Frenchmen and Scandinavians, among others. Calculating the infinite in the finite, tracing geometries of desire, placing the obdurate world in an uncustomary light, each of these stories opens out its own world. Without giving up the plot or character of the traditional short story, Guy Davenport's inventions are complex events in which ideas and cultural history are a kind of music to which the characters dance. Despite the fractal, syncopated collage of his narrative style, Davenport's prose is objective, terse, and transparent. A constant theme in this book is the transmission of the past as an imaginative act; hence the title, Falstaff's dying vision of "a table of green fields," probably a mishearing of his recitation of the Twenty-third Psalm, corrected by editors to "he babbled of green fields," a symbol of all fiction, an art that must be exact about the uncertain.

A Table of Green Fields: Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

New Directions

The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories

illustrated study of Davenport's graphic works

A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport

Arts & Photography

Anderson-Reece, Erik

Reece, Eric Anderson

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