“The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all else a difference of imagination.
The imagination is like the drunk man who has lost his watch, and must get drunk again to find it. It is as intimate as speech and custom, and to trace its ways we need to re-educate our eyes.”–Guy Davenport
The Guy Davenport Reader
List Price: $30.00
July 16, 2013 | Hardcover | 6.1 x 9.1, 421 pages | ISBN 9781619021037
GUY DAVENPORT (1927-2005) is the author of more than twenty books, including The Geography of the Imagination, Eclogues, and The Death of Picasso.
BENJAMIN URRUTIA is a teacher, linguist, and scholar who has published numerous articles about biblical subjects, and now resides in Chicago.