Full name: The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art

Author: Guy Davenport Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Essays, Non Fiction, Art Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781887178556 1887178554

Ranging over art and architecture, religion, and literature, these essays create an extraordinary collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from one of this country's most brilliant writers. An eclectic stylist who crafts sentences like no one else, Davenport will fascinate "people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things". Similar books: Habitations of the Word by William H. Gass Every Force Evolves a Form by Guy Davenport The World Within the Word by William H. Gass The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis Higher Gossip by John Updike Tests of Time by William H. Gass Odd Jobs by John Updike The Fun Stuff by James Wood Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot Forewords and Afterwords by W. H. Auden Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag Encounter by Milan Kundera Hugging the Shore by John Updike How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn Vermeer in Bosnia by Lawrence Weschler Not-Knowing by Donald Barthelme That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar At the Same Time by Susan Sontag Kill All Your Darlings by Luc Sante