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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Works by Guy Davenport

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The Geography of the Imagination 273 copies, 5 reviews
7 Greeks 109 copies, 1 review
Every Force Evolves a Form 104 copies, 1 review
The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art 97 copies
Da Vinci's Bicycle 91 copies
Eclogues 78 copies
The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing 75 copies
Tatlin! 55 copies
The Jules Verne Steam Balloon 47 copies, 1 review
Twelve Stories 38 copies
A Balthus Notebook 37 copies
Objects on a Table : Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature 37 copies
Apples and Pears and Other Stories 36 copies, 1 review
Herakleitos and Diogenes 34 copies

The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers 33 copies, 1 review

Thasos and Ohio : poems and translations, 1950-1980 30 copies

Selected Letters: Guy Davenport and James Laughlin (Selected Letters) 25 copies

Archilochus, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C. 24 copies

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

The Logia of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus 23 copies

The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories 21 copies, 1 review

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

Flowers and Leaves 9 copies

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

A Garden Carried in a Pocket: Letters 1964-968 5 copies

Trois caprices 5 copies

Jonathan Williams, Poet 4 copies

¿Qué son las revoluciones? 4 copies

Essential Psychology: The Collins Guide to Success 3 copies

Do you have a poem book on E.E. Cummings? 3 copies

The Drawings of Paul Cadmus 3 copies, 1 review

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Also by Guy Davenport

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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 314 copies, 3 reviews
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (Contributor) 71 copies, 5 reviews
Flaubert, Joyce And Beckett: The Stoic Comedians (Illustrator, some editions) 65 copies
Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments (Introduction) 48 copies, 1 review
Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (Contributor) 28 copies
Published & Perished: Memoria, Eulogies & Rememberences of American… (Contributor) 24 copies, 1 review
Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of… (Contributor) 20 copies
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (Contributor) 8 copies
Hugh Kenner: A Bibliography (Foreword) 1 copy

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