Reviews arranged chronologically by Davenport book titles
Reviewed 1 Reviewed 2 Reviewed 3 Mimes of Herondas (1981)
Anon., [untitled] Choice 19:7 (March 1982) 912.
Goldgar, Harry, "Davenport trio plays broad range" New Orleans Times-Picayune (January 10, 1982) section 3, p. 8. Also reviews Eclogues and The Geography of the Imagination.
Cities On Hills (1983)
Goldfinch Thistle Star (1983)
Anon., [untitled] American Book Collector 5:2 (March/April 1984) 30. A description of the printing and paper and design of this book by Steve Miller and Ken Botnick.
Apples and Pears (1984)
Anon., [untitled] Publishers Weekly 226:16 ()ctober 19, 1984) 32-33.
Bricklebank, Peter, [untitled] Library Journal 109:20 (December 1984) 2296.
Halliday, Bob. "Guy Davenport’s Terrestrial Paradise" Washington Post Book World 15:3 (January 20, 1985) 22.
Olson, Ray [RO], [untitled] Booklist 81:6 (November 15, 1984) 418.
Steiner, George, [untitled] in "Briefly Noted" The New Yorker 60:50 (January 28, 1985) 97.
Williamson, Chilton, [untitled] National Review 36:25 (December 28, 1984) 42.
Thasos and Ohio (1986)
Goldgar, Harry, "A versatile man of letters" St. Petersburg [FL] Times (May 25, 1986) 7D.
Parisi, Joseph [JP], [untitled] Booklist 83:4 (October 15, 1986) 321. "crisp and graceful" translations. [His] own verse is equally impressive: learned, witty, tightly constructed, and bearing strong resemblance to that of his mentor, Ezra Pound. One might feel, however, without derogation to his follower, that one Pound is quite enough."
Every Force Evolves A Form (1987)
Ash, John, "Guy Davenport's Mind of Many Colors" Washington Post Book World (January 31, 1988) 9. Reviews also The Jules Verne Steam Balloon.
Brosnahan, John, [untitled] Booklist 83:12 (February 15, 1987) 868.
Driskell, Leon V., [untitled] Louisville Courier-Journal, April 19, 1987, I 9.
Goldgar, Harry, "Only Connect! Guy Davenport in the Modern World" Hudson Review, 40:3 (Autumn 1987) pp. 495-500.
Hall, Donald, "The Egyptian Manner" National Review 39:7 (April 24, 1987) 57-58.
Radner, Rebecca , "On Tongue-in-Cheek Obliquity" San Francisco Examiner (March 8, 1987) ?.
Stuttaford, Genevieve, [untitled] Publishers Weekly 230:26 (December 26, 1986) 50.
Teachout, Terry, "In Praise of Modernists" Wall Street Journal 209:92 (May 12, 1987) 30. Mr. Teachout is on the editorial board of the New York Daily News.
Waldhorn, Arthur, [untitled] Library Journal 112:2 (February 1, 1987) 78.
Wallen, Charles [CW], [untitled] National Review 39:2 (February 13, 1987) 49. In "Random Notes" feuitton.
The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (1987)
Anon., [untitled] New York Times Book Review (October 31, 1993) 54. Under "New and Noteworthy Paperbacks" mentions the Johns Hopkins reissue edition. Also its Eclogues reissue edition.
Brosnahan, John, [untitled] Booklist 84:3 (October 1, 1987) 217.
Carpenter, Lucas, "Enlightening ‘Balloon" Proves Fiction’s Flexibility" Atlanta Journal-Constitution (January 3, 1988) F 11.
Cayton, R. E., [untitled] Choice 25:7 (March 1988) 1092.
Coale, Howard, [untitled] New York Times Book Review (November 22, 1987) 32.
Goldgar, Harry, "Flights of Fancy" St. Petersburg [FL] Times (November 15, 1987) 7D.
Note: Dr. Goldgar has reviewed also: The Geography of the Imagination, Eclogues, The Mimes of Herondas, Da Vinci's Bicycle, and Thasos and Ohio.
Koger, Grove, [untitled] Library Journal 112:17 (October 15, 1987) 91.
Messerli, Douglas, "Writers From the Diaspora of Truth" Los Angeles Times Book Review (December 6, 1987) B 8.
Mutter, John, [untitled] Publishers Weekly 232:16 (October 16, 1987) 89-90.
Schopp, Joseph C., "‘Perfect Landscape with Pastoral Figures’: Guy Davenport’s Danish Eclogue a la Fourier" in Heide Ziegler, editor, Facing Texts: Encounters Between Contemporary Writers and Critics (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1988) 128-139. Preceding this essay is the title story from Davenport’s The Jules Verne Steam Balloon.
A Balthus Notebook (1989)
Perl, Jed, "The Obscure Artist of Desire" The New Republic 202:16 (April 16, 1990) 30-35.
Perl, Jed, "Being Balthus" in his Gallery Going: Four Seasons in the Art World (San Diego: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, 1991) [373] - 383. Revision of his "The Obscure Artist of Desire" review (see above).
Stuttaford, Genevieve, [untitled] Publishers Weekly 236:10 (Sept 8, 1989) 61.
The Drummer Of The Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers (1990)
Brosnahan, John, [untitled] Booklist 87:2 (September 15, 1990) 139.
Burgin, Richard, "Dying for Love" New York Times Book Review (October 21, 1990) 24.
Heyward, Michael, "Images of Desire" Washington Post Book World (January 27, 1991) 9.
Nance, Kevin, "The beat of a different ‘Drummer’ Lexington [KY] Herald-Leader (October 28, 1990) E4.
Steinberg, Sybil, [untitled] Publishers Weekly 237:34 (August 24, 1990) 56.
Vollmann, William T., "Stories by one dubbed ‘genius’ Philadelphia Inquirer (December 2, 1990)
Waldhorn, Arthur, [untitled] Library Journal 115:17 (October 15, 1990) 102.
A Table of Green Fields (1993)
Bawer, Bruce, "The Geography of His Imagination" Washington Post Book World (December 19, 1993) 6.
Fisher, Barbara, [untitled] New York Times Book Review (December 12, 1993) 22.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, "Kafka, the Lost Doll and Other Games of Allusion" New York Times (November 15, 1993) C 17.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, "A Lost Doll and Kafka, Among Other Allusions" New York Times (December 12, 1993) B2. Ditto above review, except for variant title.
Norman, Ralph V., "Guy Davenport: As always, brilliant and challenging" Lexington Herald-Leader (November 28, 1993) E4. With photo.
Reit, Janice Norman, [untitled] Library Journal 118:6 (October 1, 1993) 129.
Charles Burchfield’s Seasons (1994)
Seaman, Donna, " Four American Painters" Booklist 90:19/20 (June 1 & 15, 1994) 1753. Part of a four-book review, including: Trevor Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent; Irma B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella’s Symbolism, and William H. Truettner and Alan Wallach, eds., Thomas Cole: Landscape into History.
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