标题: 1990 盖伊-达文波特 作家、评论家、翻译家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-6-9 10:02 标题: 1990 盖伊-达文波特 作家、评论家、翻译家 Guy Davenport
Writer, Critic, and Translator | Class of 1990
Title
Writer, Critic, and Translator
Location
Lexington, Kentucky
Age
63 at time of award
Deceased
January 4, 2005
Area of Focus
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing, Translation
Published August 1, 1990
ABOUT GUY'S WORK
Guy Davenport was a literary critic, essayist, translator, and prose stylist.
Davenport wrote short stories that are assemblages of history and fiction. He linked the demotic gestures of American civilization with the great tradition of classical and European culture. His translations of Greek poets are noted for their scholarly acumen and poetic invention. Among his numerous collections of stories are Da Vinci’s Bicycle (1979), Apples and Pears and Other Stories (and illustrator, 1984), The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (1987), A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories (1993), The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories (1996), and Twelve Stories (1997). His books of essays include The Geography of the Imagination (1981), Cities on Hills: A Study of I-XXX of Ezra Pound’s Cantos (1983), Every Force Evolves a Form (1987), A Balthus Notebook (1989), The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art (1996), and Objects on a Table: Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature (1998). His translations include Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Late Greek Bronze Age (1981) and Seven Greeks (1995).
BIOGRAPHY
Davenport taught literature at the University of Kentucky, after joining its faculty in 1963.
Davenport received a B.A. (1948) from Duke University, a B.Litt. (1950) from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. (1961) from Harvard University.