Guy Davenport
Birth date: November 23, 1927
Died: January 04, 2005
Guy Davenport's Books
Recently added on shelves
Share this Author
Spanning from the eighth to the third century B.C., included here are four poets (Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman and Anakreon), two philosophers (Herakleitos and Diogenes, the Cynic philospher), and Herondas, who wrote comic skits. Almost all of the above survive only in fragments found in pot shards, ...
And now for something completely different . . . Davenport’s style is entirely his own and a wonder, from the crystal clear to the cryptically ornamental, and he writes it all with apparent ease and talent. This is my first go at his fiction, and it is extraordinary, a collection of stories predica...
Composition as I understand it must be both a concrete and abstract continuum. It is not enough in a work of art to narrate; the narration must be made of words that constitute an inner and invisible harmony. The blossoms on the cherry, lyric white and as beautiful a sign as nature gives, must also...
An interesting pairing of mins, indeed. The Heroclitean fragments were more philosophical and oblique, whereas Diogenes' words came across as (often amusing) aphorisms. Some of my favorites from each:Heraclitus6Knowledge is not intelligence.24History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and...
"Some people watch, is all I can say."A really great collection of poetry and essay, crowned with 'The Glass Essay': a meditation on lost love, mortality, and Emily Bronte's [b:Wuthering Heights|6185|Wuthering Heights|Emily Brontë|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348940572s/6185.jpg|15658...
Log in with Facebook 
