| Guy Davenport  AKA Guy Mattison Davenport
Born: 23-Nov-1927
Birthplace: Anderson, SC
Died: 4-Jan-2005
Location of death: Lexington, KY
Cause of death: Cancer - Lung
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Thasos and Ohio Military service: US Army (1950-52, 756th Field Artillery, 18th Airborne Corps) Father: (railway agent)
University: Duke University
University: Merton College, Oxford University (1948-50, Rhodes scholarship)
Teacher: Washington University in St. Louis
University: PhD, Harvard University
Professor: Haverford College (1961-63)
Professor: University of Kentucky (1963-90)
National Review Reviewer (1961-73)
Rhodes Scholarship 1948
MacArthur Fellowship 1990 ($365K)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1998
Is the subject of books:
Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1947-1995, 1996, BY: Joan Crane
Author of books:
Goldfinch Thistle Star (1983, poetry)
Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations 1950-1980 (1986, poetry)
Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays (1987, essays)
Flowers & Leaves: Poema vel Sonata, Carmina Autumni Primaeque Veris Transformationem (1991, poetry)
The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art (1996, essays)
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