Guy Davenport just recently died. he was a writer I enjoyed reading greatly. I place him with Flann O'Brien as a writer that simply never a made a bad sentence. he comes to mind when I realize my writing's getting tortuous. helps me to keep each word in view. he bore his scholarship lightly. he was as comfortable with Ancient Greece as he was with North Carolina. his essays aren't just perceptive, they are invigourating. he has set me off reading many writers just by sharing hgis loving attention. his stories are wonderful modernist intersections, playful and wittily strange. I don't recall thru what agency his writings came to my attention. glad that it did.