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The table of contents traces sustained attention to individual writers and thinkers such as Whitman, Olson, Zukofsky, Spinoza, Ezra Pound, Louis Agassiz, and Wittgenstein, alongside thematic inquiries into archaic symbolism, narrative tone, poetic form, and the sources of poems. The front matter also records permissions, publication history, and scholarly contexts for several talks and lectures.","THE  \nGEOGRAPHY  \nOF THE  \nIMAGINATION  \nFORTY ESSAYS BY GUY DAVENPORT  \nNorth Point Press • San Francisco • 1981  \nIntroduction to The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz. Copyright© 1963 by Beacon Press. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.  \nThe essay \"Jonathan Williams\" appeared first as the introduction to An Ear in Bartram's Tree: Selected Poems, 1957-1967 by Jonathan Williams. Copyright © 1969Jonathan Williams. Reprinted by permission of The University of North Carolina Press.  \nA portion of the essay \"Ronald Johnson\" was first published as an introduction to Mr.Johnson's Valley ofthe Many-Colored Grasses published in 1969 by W.W. Norton., Inc. Reprinted by permission. Quotations from the works of Ezra Pound are all used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation: The Cantos ofEzra Pound (Copyright© 1934, 1937, 1948, 1956, 1959 by Ezra Pound; Copyright© by the Estate of Ezra Pound); ABC of Reading (Copyright © 1934 by Ezra Pound);\"Hilda's Book\" published in the New Directions edition of H. D.'s End to Torment (Copyright© 1979 by The Trustees of the Ezra Pound Literary Property Trust). All previously unpublished material by Ezra Pound, Copyright© 1981 by The Trustees of the Ezra Pound Literary Property Trust.  \nTHIRD PRINTING  \nCopyright© 1954, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969,  \n1970, 197􀂂 1973, 1974, 1975, 197􀂃 197􀂄 1979, 1980,and 1981 by Guy Davenport.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Card Catalogue Number 80-23870 ISBN: 0-86547-001-4  \nNorth Point Press 850 Talbot Avenue Berkeley, California  \nF O R H U G H K E N N E R  \nTable of Contents  \nAcknowledgments   \nThe Geography of the Imagination 3  \nThe Symbol of the Archaic 16  \nAnother Odyssey 29  \nThe House That Jack Built 45  \nPrehistoric Eyes 61  \nWhitman 68  \nOlson 80  \nZukofsky 100  \nMarianne Moore 11 4  \nSpinoza's Tulips 123  \nDo You Have a Poem Book on E. E. Cummings? 131  \nSeeing Shelley Plain 135  \nPersephone's Ezra 141  \nThe Pound Vortex 165  \nEzra Pound 1885-1972 169  \n\"Trees\" 177  \nJonathan Williams 180  \nRonald Johnson 190  \nPoetry's Golden 205  \nWhere Poems Come From 209  \nIshmael's Double 215  \nLouis Agassiz 230  \nThat Faire Field of Enna 250  \nCharles Ives 272  \nOzymandias 278  \nChrist's Cunning Rimesmith 282  \nJoyce's Forest of Symbols 286  \nThe Man Without Contemporaries 300  \nNarrative Tone and Form 308  \nTchelitchew 319  \nJack Yeats the Elder 326  \nWittgenstein 3 31  \nHobbitry 336  \nDictionary 339  \nNo, But I've Read the Book 343  \nThe Anthropology of Table Manners from Geophagy Onward 345  \nThe Indian and His Image 353  \nRoiling 359  \nRalph Eugene Meatyard 368  \nErnst Machs Max Ernst 3 73  \nAcknowledgments  \nMost of these essays were called into being by editors and occasions.\"The Symbol of the Archaic\" was read at the University of Louisville as part of the Conference on Twentieth-Century Literature in 1974, and later that year at the University of Illinois. \"The House that Jack Built\"was the inaugural lecture to open the Yale Center for the Study of Ezra Pound and His Contemporaries, 30 October 1975. \"The Geography of the Imagination\" was the Distinguished Professor Lecture at the University of Kentucky for 1978. \"Joyce's Forest of Symbols\" was the Eberhardt Faber Lecture for 1973 at Princeton.  \nFor permission to reprint I am grateful to Perspective and The Georgia Review for slightly different versions of \"The Symbol of the Archaic\"; to Salmagundi for \"The House that Jack Built\"; to Arion, Eva Hesse, Faber and Faber, and the University of California Press for \"Persephone's","cbCais81KN49bbfY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais81KN49bbfY","pdf",7058113,8,1,400,"English","en",105,"# Table of Contents\n## Acknowledgments\n## The Geography of the Imagination\n## The Symbol of the Archaic\n## Another Odyssey\n## The House That Jack Built\n## Prehistoric Eyes\n## 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