The Geography of the Imagination

“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 serves as the reader’s guide through history and literature, providing links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present—pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from