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Every Force Evolves A Form. Twenty Essays by Guy Davenport. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987.
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Every Force Evolves a Form
Every Force Evolves A Form. Twenty Essays by Guy Davenport. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987.
Contents:
- Foreword
- The Champollion of Table Manners
- What Are Those Monkeys Doing?
- Transcendental Satyr
- Montaigne
- Herondas
- Ariadne's Dancing Floor
- The Smith of Smiths
- The Artist as Critic
- The Scholar as Critic
- The Critic as Artist
- Balthus
- Nabokov's Don Quixote
- In That Awful Civil War
- More Genteel Than God
- The Peales and Their Museum
- Pergolesi's Dog
- Late Beckett
- Every Force Evolves A Form
- Making It Uglier to the Airport
- Imaginary Americas
Acknowledgements: (from the Foreword, p. x)
- 'The Champollion of Table Manners', 'Imaginary Americas,' 'Making It Uglier to the Airport,' and 'In That Awful Civil War' were first published in The Hudson Review;
- 'Balthus' and 'What Are Those Monkeys Doing?' (under the title 'Rousseau'), in Antaeus;
- 'Transcendental Satyr' (under the title 'Satyr and Transcendentalist'), in Parnassus;
- 'The Smith of Smiths,' 'More Genteel than God,' and 'The Peales and Their Museum,' in Inquiry.
- 'Montaigne' is reprinted from Montaigne's Travel Journal, translated by Donald M. Frame (North Point Press, 1983),
- 'Herondas' from The Mimes of Herondas, my translation (Grey Fox Press, 1981),
- and 'Nabokov's Don Quixote' from the New York Times Book Review and Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Don Quixote, edited by Fredson Bowers (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).
- 'Late Beckett' appeared in the Washington Post Book World,
- 'Pergolesi's Dog' in the New York Times.
- 'The Artist as Critic,' 'The Scholar as Critic,' and 'The Critic as Artist' (a filched title) were read at Washington and Lee University as the Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Lectures for 1985 and published in Shenandoah.
- 'Ariadne's Dancing Floor' was written for a collection of essays on Joyce that failed to materialize.
- 'Every Force Evolves a Form' is an unabashedly experimental inclusion: it is simply a lecture, reconstructed from notes on a scrap of paper, for English 684 at the University of Kentucky. It was, like all my classroom lectures, invented on my half an hour's daily walk to work. As all my ideas, such as they are, come from these walks, and from the classrooms at the end of them, it will perhaps interest a reader or two to see the raw matter of a class."
Dedication: For Rodney Needham
Photograph of GD is by Guy Mendes (dust jacket, rear)
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