The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Geography of the Imagination Ppr)

The Geography of the Imagination includes essays on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Ives, Melville, Pavel Tchelitchew, Tolkien, Pound, Stevens, Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Louis Zukofsky, and many others. Each essay is a tour of the history of ideas and imagination in philosophy, art and literature, as Mr. Davenport makes unexpected and exciting connections. The Geography Of The Imagination -- The Symbol Of The Archaic -- Another Odyssey -- The House That Jack Built -- Prehistoric Eyes -- Whtiman -- Olson -- Zukofsky -- Marianne Moore -- Spinoza's Tulips -- Do You Have A Poem Book On E.e. Cummings? -- Seeing Shelley Plain -- Persephone's Ezra -- The Pound Vortex -- Ezra Pound 1885-1972 -- Trees -- Jonathan Williams -- Ronald Johnson -- Poetry's Golden -- Where Poems Come From -- Ishmael's Double -- Louis Agassiz -- That Faire Field Of Enna -- Charles Ives -- Ozymandias -- Christ's Cunning Rimesmith -- Joyce's Forest Of Symbols -- The Man Without Contemporaries -- Narrative Tone And Form -- Tchelitchew -- Jack Yeats The Elder -- Wirtgenstein -- Hobbitry -- Dictionary -- No, But I've Read The Book -- The Anthropology Of Table Manners From Geophagy Onward -- The Indian And His Image -- Finding -- Ralph Eugene Meatyard -- Ernst Machs Max Ernst. By Guy Davenport. Includes Bibliographical References. Nominated for the American Book Award for general non-fiction, these essays cover art, philosophy, literature, Greek culture and history. Personalities covered include Eudora Welty, Melville, Pound, Joyce Kilmer, Walt Disney, Tarzan, Whitman, Wittgenstein, Ives, Marianne Moore and Louis Zukofsky