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Reviews arranged chronologically by Davenport book titles
 

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Motive and Method in 'The Cantos' of Ezra Pound (1954; rpt 1961)  ed. Lewis Leary

 

Parkinson, Thomas, "Method in 'Motive and Method' -- a Review" in The Pound Newsletter 4 (October 1954) 7-8. Review followed by exchange of letters to the editor, The Pound Newsletter 5 (January 1955) 26-29.

 
The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz (1963)
 

Himmelfarb, Gertrude "The Scientific Imagination" in The New York Review of Books: February 1963 -- January 1965, (New York: Arno Press, 1969) pp. 5-8. Included in a collective review of six books about Darwin and evolution.

 

Miller, Vincent, "Science in the Grand Tradition" National Review 17:12 (March 23, 1961 (sic) 1965) 243-244.

 

Carmina Archilochi (1964)

 

Anon., "After Homer" London Times Literary Supplement 3284
(February 4, 1965) 86

 

Arnott, W. Geoffrey, [untitled] Notes and Queries NS 13:4 (April 1966) 157-158.

 

Burnett, Anne Pippin, [untitled] Classical Philology 60:1 (January 1965) 49-51.

 

Redfield, James, "Archilochus Not Quite Revived" Poetry 105:5
(February 1965) 329-331.

 
Sappho (1965)
 

Brandon, William, "Sappho and Other Stories" The Massachusetts Review ( ? ) 689-702. A review of several translations of Sappho including:

  • Suzy Q. Groden, The Poems of Sappho
  • Willis Barnstone, Sappho
     
 

Carne-Ross, D. S., "Prima Donna" The New York Review of Books (March 3, 1966) 5-6.

 

Wills, Gaary, "Litmus Paper of the Mind" National Review 18:12 (March 22, 1966) 279-281.

 

Flowers and Leaves (1966)

 

Todd, Joyce, 'Flowers and Leaves' Our University [Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Public Affairs Office] 9:5 (November 1966) 17. with Gene Meatyard photo of GD (from cover of F & L.)

Tatlin! (1974)
 

Anon., [untitled] Booklist 71:4 (Oct 15, 1974) 214.

Anon., [untitled] New York Times Book Review 87 (May 30, 1982) 23.

Anon., [untitled] North American Review 267 (September 1982) 78-79.

Allen, Bruce, [untitled] Library Journal 99:14 (August 1974) 1981.

Bannon, Barbara A., [untitled] Publishers Weekly 205:21 (May 27, 1974) 57-58.

Bergman, Andrew C. J., "Six Partial Fictions," New York Times Book Review (October 20, 1974) 16, 18.

Bradford, M. E., "Six Artful Derivations," National Review 27:17 (May 9, 1975) 519-521.

Cheuse, Alan, "Experiment in Extrapolation," Los Angeles Times (October 13, 1974) 75.

Ehrenpreis, Irvin, [untitled] New York Review of Books 21(December 12, 1974) 43. Followed by exchange of letters, NYRoB 22:2 (February 1975) 37.

Halio, Jay L., [untitled] Studies in Short Fiction 13:1 (Winter 1976) 95-96.

Kenner, Hugh, "Stranger Than Stannum' National Review 27:21 (June 6, 1975) 627.

Klinkowitz, Jerome, "The 'Moderns' in Retrospect" Chicago Tribune (August 26, 1974) VII, 2.

Kramer, Hilton, "A Tour de Force of Fiction" New York Times (August 26, 1974) 21.

Lemon, Lee T., [Untitled review of several books including Tatlin!] Prairie Schooner 49:2 (Summer 1975) 174-176.

Lueders, Edward, "Davenport's Fictional Games" Louisville Courier Journal (August 11, 1974) E6.

Metcalf, Paul, "Connection and Separation" Margins 15 (December 1974) 12, 13.

Pevear, Richard, "'Tatlin!', Or the Limits of Fiction" Hudson Review 28:1 (Spring 1975) 141-146.

Shannon, John, "'Tatlin!', Or, the Secretary of 'Flowers and Leaves'" Margins 15 (December 1974) 12-21; 62, 63.

Sullivan, Walter, "Erewhon and Eros: The Short Story Again" The Sewanee Review 83:3 (Summer 1975) 537-546, especially 537-539.

Swain, Bruce, "‘Specialist in the unheard of’’ Louisville Courier-Journal & Times (August 11, 1974) E6.

Wertime, Richard, [untitled] Georgia Review 29:4 (Winter 1975) 948-957.

West, Paul, "And Much, Much More" Washington Post Book World (August 11, 1974) 3.

Williamson, Alan, "A Lateborn Modernist" Shenandoah 26 (Spring 1975) 87-90.

Wolff, Alice E., [untitled] Kirkus Reviews 42:9 (May 1, 1974) 499.

 

 
Da Vinci's Bicycle (1979)
 

Anon., [untitled] Choice 16:8 (October 1979) 1014, 1016.

Anon., included in "A selection of the best books of 1979" New York Times Book Review (November 25, 1979) 15 ff. Comment on Davenport’s book at p. 50.

Bannon, Barbara, [untitled] Publishers Weekly 215:15 (April 9, 1979) 95-96.

Dawson, Fielding, [untitled] The American Book Review 3 (May 1981) 4-5. Includes review of The Geography of the Imagination

Goldgar, Harry, "'Bicycle' a Perfect Marriage of Publisher and Author" New Orleans Times-Picayune (June 3, 1979) Section 3, p. 8.

Kearns, George, "Guy Davenport in Harmony" Hudson Review 33:3 (Autumn 1980) 449-454.

Kenner, Hugh, "Assemblages" National Review 31:39 (September 28, 1979) 1238-1241.

Klinkowitz, Jerome, "Cycling Through History" Washington Post Book World (July 15, 1979) H3.

Morace, Robert, "Invention in Guy Davenport’s Da Vinci’s Bicycle" Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction 22:3 (March/April 1981) 71-87.

Mort, John, [untitled] Library Journal 104 (May 15, 1979) 1157-1158.

Olsen, Lance, "A Guydebook to the Last Modernist: Davenport on Davenport and Da Vinci’s Bicycle" Journal of Narrative Technique 16 (1986) 148-161.

Stade, George, "Fiction in the Modernist Mode" New York Times (June 17, 1979) VII, 9, 28.

Sullivan, Jack [untitled] Saturday Review 6:14 (July 7, 1979) 46.

Van Wert, William F., "Some Manhattan in New England, Some Enchantment in Ohio" Georgia Review 34:2 (Summer 1980) 441-448, especially 445ff. Note: This is the second of a two-part survey of collected short fiction. The first part is entitled "And to Make a Long Story Short" Georgia Review 34:1 (Spring 1980) 195-201.

 

 

Herakleitos and Diogenes (1979)

Kenner, Hugh, "Biscuit-plain Sense" Quest/80 (1980?) 78-79.

 

 

Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman (1980)

Anon., "The Lost Shield" New York Times Book Review (September 9, 1984) 55. An excerpt from the book beginning with "Some Saian mountaineer . . ."

Padel, Ruth, "For love of fragments" London Times Literary Supplement #4073, 466.

Robinson, Thomas M. [untitled] Library Journal 105:17 (October 1, 1980) 2088.

 

 
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