Guy Davenport

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

Biography

After school he studied at Duke University and then from 1948 to 1950 with a Rhodes Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford University. First Then he made during the Korean War 1950-1952 his military service with 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 he received his doctorate at Harvard University. In 1961 he became a professor at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and was also 1961-1973 Reviewer in the conservative political magazine National Review.

From 1963 to 1990 he was professor at the University of Kentucky. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a 500,000 U.S. dollars over five years doped scholarships for creative thinkers and scientists in the United States.

In addition to his 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 addition, he wrote the 1983 anthology Goldfinch Thistle star. Poems and Translations 1950-1980 ( 1986) and Flowers & Leaves: After the volumes of poetry Thasos and Ohio followed Poema vel Sonata, Carmina Veris Autumni Primaeque 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)

For his services he was in 1998 also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Background literature

  • Joan Crane: Guy Davenport. A Descriptive Bibliography, 1947-1995, 1996
  • Andre Furlani: Guy Davenport: postmodern and after, ISBN 0810123894, 2007

External links and sources

  • Guy Davenport in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • THE WASHINGTON POST: This Guy Davenport; Writer Had Distinct Voice (8 January 2005)
  • Interview with Guy Davenport ( The Balloon Journey )
  • Bibliography ( buecher.de )
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