Guy Davenport

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Guy Mattison Davenport (born November 23, 1927 in Anderson , South Carolina , † January 4, 2005 in Lexington , Kentucky ) was an American poet , essayist and university professor .

biography

After schooling, he studied first at the Duke University , and then from 1948 to 1950 with a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College of Oxford University . After that he made during the Korean War, his 1950 to 1952 military service in the 756th Field Artillery - Regiment (756th Field Artillery) and the XVIII. U.S. Airborne Corps .

After completing his military service, he became a teacher at Washington University in St. Louis before receiving his doctorate from Harvard University . In 1961 he became a professor at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and was also a reviewer for the conservative political journal National Review from 1961 to 1973 .

From 1963 to 1990 he was a professor at the University of Kentucky . In 1990 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , a 500,000 US dollar doped five-year scholarships for creative minds and scholars in the US.

In addition to teaching, he was also a poet and essayist and made his literary debut in 1970 with Tatlin! , the first of eight volumes of short stories . In 1983 he also wrote the anthology Goldfinch Thistle Star . This was followed by the volumes of poetry Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations 1950-1980 (1986) and Flowers & Leaves: Poema vel Sonata, Carmina Autumni Primaeque Veris Transformationem (1991) and the collections of essays Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays (1987) , The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art (1996) and The geography of the imagination: forty essays (1997)

His other publications include:

  • Da Vinci's bicycle: ten stories (1997).
  • Objects on a Table: Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature (1999)
  • The Death of Picasso (2003)

In 1998 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his services .

Background literature

  • Joan Crane: Guy Davenport. A Descriptive Bibliography, 1947-1995 , 1996
  • André Furlani: Guy Davenport: postmodern and after , ISBN 0-8101-2389-4 , 2007

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art (Google Books)
  2. ↑ The geography of the imagination: forty essays (Google Books)
  3. ↑ Da Vinci's bicycle: ten stories (Google Books)
  4. ↑ Objects on a Table: Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature (Google Books)
  5. ^ André Furlani (Google Books)
personal data
SURNAME Davenport, Guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davenport, Guy Mattison (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet, essayist, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Anderson , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2005
Place of death Lexington , Kentucky