The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

“One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”—Washington Post

Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present—and pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything ever written, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed...