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Lung</a><br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Occupation:</b> Author<p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> <i>Thasos and Ohio</i><p><b>Military service:</b> US Army (1950-52, 756th Field Artillery, 18th Airborne Corps)<p><b>Father:</b> (railway agent)<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/510/000068306/">Duke University</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/486/000068282/">Merton College, Oxford University (1948-50, Rhodes scholarship)</a><br> Teacher: <a href="/edu/630/000079393/">Washington University in St. Louis</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/473/000068269/">PhD, Harvard University</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/731/000068527/">Haverford College (1961-63)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/824/000068620/">University of Kentucky (1963-90)</a><br><p> <a href="/media/005/000048858/">National Review</a> Reviewer (1961-73)<br> <a href="/honors/422/000041299/">Rhodes Scholarship</a> 1948<br> <a href="/honors/321/000044189/">MacArthur Fellowship</a> 1990 ($365K)<br> <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> 1998<br><p> <b>Is the subject of books:</b><br> <i>Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1947-1995</i>, <tt>1996</tt>, <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=-1>BY:</font> Joan Crane<br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Goldfinch Thistle Star</i> (<tt>1983</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations 1950-1980</i> (<tt>1986</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays</i> (<tt>1987</tt>, essays)<br><i>Flowers & Leaves: Poema vel Sonata, Carmina Autumni Primaeque Veris Transformationem</i> (<tt>1991</tt>, poetry)<br><i>The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art</i> (<tt>1996</tt>, essays)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=115640"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=115640">Guy Davenport</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=115640" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>