Influences and Interpretations
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Halpern, Daniel, "Literary Influences" Antaeus 62 (Spring 1989) 234-244.
Two lists: the first of writers and their considered influences; the second of the influencers cited with those so influenced following in parentheses.
The first lists entry: "Guy Davenport":
- Donald Barthelme
- James Joyce
- Rudyard Kipling
- Osip Mandelstam
- Plutarch
- Ezra Pound
- Robert Walser
- Eudora Welty (p. 235)
The second list (excerpts pertaining to Guy Davenport):
- Barthelme (T. C. Boyle; Davenport)
- Joyce (Barth, Brodkey, Coover, Davenport, Gass, Hawkes, et al.)
- Kipling (Davenport)
- Mandelstam (Davenport)
- Pound (Davenport)
- Plutarch (Davenport)
- Walser (Davenport, Walser)
- Welty (Davenport, Gordimer)
Interpretations
Alpert, Barry, ed., Vort: Twenty-first Century Pre-Views: Guy Davenport -- and Ronald Johnson [Albuquerque, NM: Barry Alpert, 1976] 147 pp. typescript, stapled (9th in a series focusing on contemporary American writers)
Frontispiece: photo of GD by Christopher Meatyard
Back Cover: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska [drawing] by Guy Davenport
Contents:
- Guy Davenport [photograph of] -- Christopher Meatyard
- Guy Davenport, An Interview -- Barry Alpert
- From The Notebooks -- Guy Davenport
- Narrative Tone And Form -- Guy davenport
- Ex Nihilo -- Hugh Kenner
- Guy Davenport, The Teacher -- Richard Taylor
- Lapidary Fingers -- Hugh Kenner
- Flowers & Leaves -- [review] -- Paul Metcalf
- Persistent Light Upon The Inviolably Forever Other -- Ronald Johnson
- The Italics Are Guy Davenport's -- Ronald Johnson
- Tatlin! -- [review] -- Paul Metcalf
- Tatlin! -- [review] -- Fielding Dawson
- "1830" -- John Wilson
- Ezra Pound's Presence In Guy Davenport's Tatlin! -- Hugh Witemeyer
- Guy Davenport: Understanding What To Save -- Robert L. Caserio
- Alkman's Guest -- John Peck
- Guy Davenport And The Use Of Knowledge -- Donald Byrd
- Ronald Johnson -- Byron Smith
- Ronald Johnson, An Interview -- Barry Alpert
- WOR(L)DS 25-27 -- Ronald Johnson
- What Is The Matter -- John Shannon
- Synchronicity, Ronald Johnson And The Migratory Phrase -- Steve McCaffery
- Focus A Fire Place -- Thomas Meyer
- Building Forms -- Gus Blaisdell
- [Introduction to Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses] -- Guy Davenport
- [Introduction to RADI OS] -- Guy Davenport [dated 4 July 1976]
- The Editorial Process -- Barry Alpert [dated 11 October 1976]
An excerpt "From The Notebooks" (p. 18):
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"Most language refers not to the world but to itself, is a music of sense rather than sense itself. That language is metaphorical is, in time, its frailty and deterioration. An allusion is a reservation of meaning.
"Joyce came to feel that the fall of a leaf was as grievous as the fall of man. You must understand this to read Finnegans Wake. (Beckett in conversation at the Closerie des Lilas).
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-- Guy Davenport
Hoepffner, Bernard. Guy Davenport ; L'utopie localisée. Par Bernard Hœpffner, traducteur. Paris: Belin, 1998. 127 pp. (voix americaines, collection dirigée par Marc Chénetier)
Olsen, Lance, "A Guydebook to the Last Modernist: Davenport on Davenport and Da Vinci's Bicycle" Journal of Narrative Technique 16 (1986) 148-161.
Reece, Erik Anderson. A Balance of Quinces: Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport. New York: New Directions, 1996.
Shannon, John [Kingsley], ed., [Symposium on Guy Davenport] Margins 13 (August/September 1974) 3-23, 71.
Wilson, John, 'Tatlin!' The Renaissance of the Archaic [Thesis], Los Angeles: California State University, English Department, 1975.
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