Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewForty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport serves as the listener's guide through history and literature, providing links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present--pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything ever written and had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization. In these 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. This Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Guy Davenport , John Jeremiah Sullivan , Paul WoodsonPublisher: Tantor Audio Imprint: Tantor Audio ISBN: 9798228010505Publication Date: 24 September 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationGuy Davenport was a writer of fiction, illustrator, teacher, scholar, translator, poet, and critic. Mr. Davenport published over forty books, among them collections of short stories, translations from the Greek, illustrated works, a novel, and critical studies on literature, culture, and art. Paul Woodson has won SOVAS & Earphones awards, and has recorded close to 350 audiobooks in many different genres--including romance, fiction, history, biography, and mystery--in American and British accents--and received his BFA in acting at Boston University. In his theater days, he worked in many NYC shows, toured the USA and Europe, and starred in NYC as Vincent van Gogh in the sung-through, OOBR Award-winning musical Vincent. He enjoys backpacking the Appalachian Trail and visiting national parks in his spare time. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA. John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of the book Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son and the essay collection Pulphead. His awards include the Whiting Award, the National Magazine Award, the James Beard Writing Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
