Author: Guy Davenport

Also known as: G Davenport, Davenport Guy, Guy Davenport translator

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Books by Guy Davenport

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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays 128 copies, 5 reviews
7 Greeks 52 copies
The Hunter Gracchus and other papers on literature and art 48 copies
Every Force Evolves a Form 44 copies
Da Vinci's Bicycle: Ten Stories 41 copies
Eclogues : eight stories 37 copies
The death of Picasso : new & selected writing 36 copies
Tatlin! Six stories 24 copies
The Jules Verne steam balloon : nine stories 22 copies
Apples and pears and other stories 20 copies, 1 review
The drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers 20 copies, 1 review
12 stories 19 copies
A Balthus notebook 18 copies
Herakleitos & Diogenes 17 copies
Thasos and Ohio : poems and translations, 1950-1980 15 copies
Objects on a table : harmonious disarray in art and literature 15 copies
The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories 14 copies, 1 review
Selected Letters: Guy Davenport and James Laughlin (Selected Letters) 13 copies
A table of green fields : ten stories 11 copies, 1 review
The logia of Yeshua : the sayings of Jesus 11 copies
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Date of birth

1927-11-23

Date of death

2005-01-04

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USA

Places of residence

Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Anderson, South Carolina, USA (birth)

Education

Duke University (BA|Classics|English Literature|1948)

Harvard University (PhD|1961)

Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar, Merton, BA|Literature|1950)

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American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2001)

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