{"product_id":"the-geography-of-the-imagination-guy-davenport-9781567927771","title":"The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present--and pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything ever written, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavenport serves as the reader's guide through history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. In these forty essays we find fresh thinking on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Melville, Tolkien, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Louis Zukovsky, and many others. Each essay is a tour of the history of ideas and imagination, written with wit and startling erudition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guy Davenport\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1567927777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781567927771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nonpareil Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.20w x 1.70d","brand":"Guy Davenport","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44132260741375,"sku":"9781567927771","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_357fc211-8eaf-4dda-95b7-5b1018c558ac.jpg?v=1687479165","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-geography-of-the-imagination-guy-davenport-9781567927771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}