Author photo. Photograph of Guy Davenport by photographer Guy Mendez from the dust jacket for The Geography of the Imagination : Forty Essays / Guy Davenport (San Francisco : Northpoint Press, 1981.

Photograph of Guy Davenport by photographer Guy Mendez from the dust jacket for The Geography of the Imagination : Forty Essays / Guy Davenport (San Francisco : Northpoint Press, 1981.

Guy Davenport (1927–2005)

Author of The Geography of the Imagination

Includes the names: G. Davenport, Guy Davenport, Guy Trans Davenport, translator Guy Davenport

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The Geography of the Imagination 242 copies, 5 reviews
7 Greeks 95 copies
The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art 87 copies
Every Force Evolves a Form 85 copies, 1 review
Da Vinci's Bicycle 79 copies
Eclogues 72 copies
The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing 69 copies
Tatlin! 45 copies
The Jules Verne Steam Balloon 45 copies, 1 review
Twelve Stories 35 copies
A Balthus Notebook 33 copies
The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers 33 copies, 1 review
Apples and Pears and Other Stories 33 copies, 1 review
Objects on a Table : Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature 32 copies

Herakleitos and Diogenes 31 copies

Thasos and Ohio : poems and translations, 1950-1980 28 copies

A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories 24 copies, 1 review

The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories 21 copies, 1 review

Selected Letters: Guy Davenport and James Laughlin (Selected Letters) 21 copies

The Logia of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus 19 copies

Archilochus, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C. 19 copies

Charles Burchfield's Seasons (Essential Paintings Series) 18 copies

Flowers and Leaves 7 copies

Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments (Modern Library… 7 copies

A Garden Carried in a Pocket: Letters 1964-968 4 copies

The Drawings of Paul Cadmus 4 copies, 1 review

Trois caprices 4 copies

Essential Psychology: The Collins Guide to Success 3 copies

The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz 2 copies

Cities on hills : a study of I-XXX of Ezra Pound's cantos 2 copies

Do you have a poem book on E.E. Cummings? 2 copies

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