{"product_id":"the-geography-of-the-imagination-forty-essays-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSullivan, John Jeremiah:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Jeremiah Sullivan\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, and is a contributing writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the book \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and the essay collection \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePulphead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e. His awards include the Whiting Award, the National Magazine Award, the James Beard Writing Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavenport, Guy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuy Davenport\u003c\/b\u003e was a writer of fiction, illustrator, teacher, scholar, translator, poet, and critic. Mr. Davenport published over 40 books, among them collections of short stories, translations from the Greek, illustrated works, a novel, and critical studies on literature, culture, and art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonpareil Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50600935817490,"sku":"9781567927771","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a790ee78-1537-458a-889f-7988fe6b9a20.jpg?v=1773738045","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-geography-of-the-imagination-forty-essays-9781567927771","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}