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Guy Davenport, 1927-2005.(Notes & Comments)(Obituary)
It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Guy Davenport, poet, novelist, book illustrator, essayist nonpareil, raconteur indefatigable, master of humane inquiry. Guy was entirely sui generis, an autodidact of the old school who managed to sample Duke, Merton College at Oxford, and Harvard University (Ph.D. on Ezra Pound) with no visible deformation. He taught for decades: at the University of Washington in St. Louis, at Haverford College, and at the University of Kentucky from 1963 until 1991 when a MacArthur "genius" award (for once they got it right) set him free, free at last. Yet if Guy was in, he most certainly was not of, the academy. A less academic ...
- Andre Furlani. Guy Davenport. Postmodern And After.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Cozy, David September 22, 2007 700+ words
ANDRE FURLANI. GUY DAVENPORT. POSTMODERN AND AFTER. NORTHWESTERN...247 PP. PAPER: $27.95. When Guy Davenport died, the Provost of the University...Concerned primarily with the fiction, Guy Davenport: Postmodern and After has as much...
- A DELECTABLE COLLECTION FROM GUY DAVENPORT
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Robert Taylor, Globe Staff February 25, 1987 700+ words
...EVERY FORCE EVOLVES A FORM, by Guy Davenport. North Point Press. 192 pp...he a Flemish painter of old, Guy Davenport would come down to us as The Master...of Books, don't appear upon Guy Davenport's list of acknowledgments...
- Guy Davenport and James Laughlin; selected letters.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2007 700+ words
9780393059502 Guy Davenport and James Laughlin; selected letters. Davenport, Guy. Ed. by W.C. Bamberger. W.W...selected letters between artist and author Guy Davenport and New Directions founder James Laughlin...
- Guy Davenport.(Criticism and interpretation)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Cozy, David September 22, 2005 700+ words
It is no surprise that Guy Davenport admired the work of Henry Darger. Beginning with the landlords...1974) Tatlin! is the best place to begin a consideration of Guy Davenport's fiction, and that is not only because it comes first. It...
- Guy Davenport.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie Ebony, David March 1, 2005 700+ words
Guy Davenport, 77, writer and artist, died Jan. 4 in Lexington, Ky., of lung...Davenport's own art, A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport. A gifted draftsman, Davenport illustrated a number of books, including...
- There must I begin to be: Guy Davenport's heretical fictions.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Mason, Wyatt April 1, 2004 700+ words
...New & Selected Writing, by Guy Davenport. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003...The early work of American writer Guy Davenport offers an illustration of this...has an 'in.' The truth is that Guy simply writes more and better than...
- "When novelists become Cubists": the prose ideograms of Guy Davenport.(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Style Furlani, Andre March 22, 2002 700+ words
Guy Davenport's narratives are hybrids of fiction, documentary, poem, and illustration...Lascaux, and the utopian project of Charles Fourier. Assemblage For Guy Davenport "every force evolves a form." It is typical of him, who makes this...
- Guy Davenport, for many years a professor of English at the University of...
- Magazine article from: National Review January 31, 2005 700+ words
* Guy Davenport, for many years a professor of English at the University of Kentucky, died at 77. He wrote in the range of 50 books, mostly...
