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Contemporary Authors, volume 33-36 (1973) pp. 248-249.
 

Riley, Carolyn and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson, eds., Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, and other creative writers. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1976. Volume 6, pp. 123-125.

  Excerpts from:

  • Bergman, Andrew C.J., NYTBR (Oct 20, 1974)
  • Johnson, Curtis, Chicago Review 26:4 (1975)
  • Lemon, Lee T., Prairie Schooner (Summer 1975)
  • Sullivan, Walter, Sewanee Review (Summer 1975)
  • West, Paul, "And Much, Much More!" WPBW (Aug 11, 1974) 3.

 

 
Sader, Marion, ed., Comprehensive Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970; Series One. Millwood, NY: Kraus-Thompson Organization, Ltd, 1976. Entry in v.  2 "Butor to Eliot" pp. 1030-1032.
 
 

Evory, Ann, ed., Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide To Current Authors and Their Works. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1978. Volumes 33-36, First Revision, pp. 231-232.

  Cites the following sources:

  • New York Review of Books, March 3, 1966
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. VI, Gale, 1976
  • New Literary History, autumn 1977

 

 

Bryfonski, Dedria and Laurie Lanzen Harris, eds., Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, and Other Creative Writers. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, no date [1980?]. Volume 14, pp. 138-143.

  Excerpts from:

  • Kenner, Hugh, "Assemblages" National Review 31:39 (Sep 28, 1979) 1238-1241.
  • Pevear, Richard, "'Tatlin!', or the Limits of Fiction" Hudson Review 28:1 (Spring 1975) 141-146.
  • Stade, George, "Fiction in the Modernist Mode" NYT Book Review (June 17, 1979) 9, 28.
  • Sullivan, Jack, "Books in Brief: 'Da Vinci's Bicycle'" Saturday Review  6:14 (July 7, 1979) 46.
  • Wertime, Richard, [Review of Tatlin!] Georgia Review 29:4 (Winter 1975) 948-957.
  • Witemeyer, Hugh, "Ezra Pound's Presence in Guy Davenport's Tatlin!'" Vort 3:3 (1976) 57-60.

 

 

Magill, Frank N., ed., Critical Survey of Short Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1981. Volume 4, pp. 1244-1249. Entry by Robert A. Morace.

  Includes references to the following:

  • Bergman, Andrew C. J. "Six partial fictions" NY Times Book Review (Oct 20, 1974) 16, 18.
  • Bradford, M. E. :Six Artful Derivations" National Review 27 (May 9, 1975) 519-521.
  • Pevear, Richard, "'Tatlin!', or the limits of Fiction" Hudson Review 27 (Spring 1975) 141-146.
  • Williamson, Alan "A Late Born Modernist" Shenandoah 26 (Spring 1975) 87-90.

 

 

Vinson, James, ed., Contemporary Novelists. 3d ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1982. pp. 164-165. Entry by Jerome Klinkowitz, Professor of English, Univ. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.

______. 1986 edition. New York: St. James Press. Entry by Jerome Klinkowitz, pp. 217-219.

  Includes the following references:

  • Pevear, Richard, Hudson Review (Spring 1975)
  • "Guy Davenport in Harmony" Hudson Review (Autumn 1980)

 

 

Marowski, Daniel G., ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, no date [1985?]. Volume 38, pp. 139-148.

  Includes excerpts from the following critics:

  • [Anon.] Publishers Weekly 226:16 (Oct 19, 1984) 32-33.
  • Halliday, Bob "Guy Davenport's Terrestrial Paradise" WP Book World (Jan 20, 1985) 8.
  • Kearns, George, "Guy Davenport in Harmony: Hudson Review 33:3 (Autumn 1980) 449-452, 454.
  • Kenner, Hugh, "A Geography of the Imagination" Harper's 263:1575 (August 1981) 66-68.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome, [review of Apples and Pears] Review of Contemporary Fiction 6:1 (Spring 1986) 216-218.
  • Kramer, Hilton, "After the Archaic" NY Times Book Review (Sept 6, 1981) 7, 21.
  • Steiner, George, "Rare Bird" The New Yorker 57:41 (Nov 30, 1981) 196, 199-202, 204.
  • Tanenhaus, Sam, "Briefs Encounter" Village Voice 29:51 (Dec 18, 1984) 72.
  • Watterson, William C., "A Mapping of the Mind" New Leader, 64:13 (June 29, 1981) 16-17.
  • Wilson, Ellen, "Rubik Cubes" National Review 33:22 (Nov 13, 1981) 1358-1360.

 

 

Bloom, Harold, ed., Twentieth-Century American Literature. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Volume 2, pp. 939-946. (Publisher's series: The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism)

  Critical excerpts:

  • Bergman, Andrew C.J., NY Times Book Rreview (Oct 20, 1974, 16-18.
  • Davenport, Guy, "From Indifference to Attention" NYTBR Apr 4, 1982) 13, 30.
  • Johnson, Curtis, Chicago Review 1975, 190-191.
  • Kenner, Hugh, National Review (Sep 28, 1979) 1238-1244.
  • Pevear, Richard, The Hudson Review (Spring 1975) 143-146
  • Stade, George, NYTBR (June 17, 1979) 9, 28.
  • Sullivan, Jack, "Da Vinci's Bicycle" Saturday Review (July 7, 1979) 46.
  • [Unsigned] "Briefly Noted" New Yorker (Jan 28, 1985) 97.
  • Wertime, Georgia Review (Winter 1975) 955-957.

 

 

McCaffery, Larry, ed., Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. pp. 317-320. (Publisher's series: Movement in the Arts, ISSN 8756-890X, no. 2)

  "Selected Bibliography -- Secondary Sources" refers to:

  • Morace, Robert A. "Davenport, Guy" in Critical Survey of Short Fiction, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1981)
  • Morace, Robert A. "Invention in Guy Davenport's 'Da Vinci's Bicycle'" Critique 22 (April 1981) 71-87.
  • Pevear, Richard, Hudson Review 23 (Spring 1975) 141-146.
  • Wertime, Richard, Review of Tatlin! Georgia Review 29 (Winter 1975) 948-957.
  • Wilson, John, 'Tatlin!': The Renaissance of the Archaic. M.A. Thesis. California State University., 1975.

 

 

Bloom, Harold, ed., Twentieth-Century American Literature. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988. Volume 8, Bibliographical Supplement and Index, pp. 4579-4580. (Publisher's series: The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism)

  •   A list of Davenport's publications (partial) through 1986.

 

 

Straub, Deborah A., ed., Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1988. Volume 23, New Revision Series, pp. 112-115. "Sketch by Anne Janette Johnson"

  Cites the following sources:

  • Chicago Review 26:4 (1975) Curtis Johnson
  • Critique, March 1981
  • Georgia Review winter 1975 Richard Wertime
  • Globe and Mail (Toronto) Nov. 17, 1984
  • Harper's August 1981
  • Hudson Review spring 1975, autumn 1980 George Kearns
  • Los Angeles Times December 12, 1984
  • National Review, September 28, 1979; Nov. 13, 1981 HK
  • New Leader, June 29, 1981 William C. Watterson
  • New Literary History, autumn 1977
  • New Yorker, November 30, 1981 George Steiner
  • New York Review of Books, March 3, 1966; Dec. 12, 1974
  • New York Times Book Review, Oct 20, 1974; June 17, 1979; Sep 6, 1981;
  • Apr 4, 1982 Andrew C. J. Bergman; Hilton Kramer
  • Prairie Schooner, summer 1975
  • Review of Contemporary Fiction, spring 1986
  • Saturday Review, summer 1979 Jack Sullivan
  • Sewanee Review, summer 1975 Walter Sullivan
  • London Times Literary Supplement, Apr 24, 1981; Mar 8, 1985 Adam Mars-Jones
  • Toronto Globe & Mail
  • Village Voice, Jan 14, 1980; Dec 23, 1981; Dec 18, 1984
  • Darryl Pickney and Sam Tanenhaus
  • Vort 2:3 (1976)
  • Washington Post Book World, Aug 11, 1974; Jul 15, 1979; Sep 6, 1981;
  • Jan 20, 1985 Jerome Klinkowitz and Bob Halliday

 

 

Magill, Frank N., ed., Cyclopedia of World Authors II. Pasadena, CA; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1989. Volume 1, pp. 401-402. Entry by Carl Singleton, Fort Hays State University     (p. xii)

  "Bibliographic References" cites the following:

  • [Anon.] "A Guydebook to the Last Modernist: Davenport on Davenport and 'Da Vinci's Bicycle'" in Journal of Narrative Technique 16 (1986) 148-161.
  • Burton, William, "Guy Davenport: A Bibliographical Checklist" American Book Collector 5 (1984) 37-46.
  • Halliday, Bob, "Guy Davenport's Terrestrial Paradise" Washington post Book Workd (Jan 20, 1985) 8.
  • Kearns, George, "Guy Davenport in Harmony" Hudson Review 33 (1980) 449-454.
  • Kenner, Assemblages" National Review 31 (1979) 1238-1241.
  • Pevear, Richard, "'Tatlin!', or the Limits of Fiction" The Hudson Review 28 (1975) 141-146.
  • Schopp, Joseph C., "Perfect Landscape with Pastoral Figures: Guy Davenport's Danish Eclogue a la Fourier" in Heidi Ziegler, ed., Facing Texts: Encounters Between Contemporary Writers and Critics, 1988.
  • Steiner, George, "Rare Bird" New Yorker 57 (1981) 196.
  • Watterson, Wm C. "A Mapping of the Mind" The New Leader 64: (1981) 16-17.

 

 
Dirda, Michael. "Guy Davenport" Washington Post Book World 26:50 (15 Dec 96) 15.
 

 

 
 
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