Guy Davenport earned a bachelor’s degree in English and comparative literature at Duke University in 1948. He was awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in literature in 1950. From 1950 through 1952, he served in the XVIII Airborne Corps and from 1952 through 1955, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. In 1952, he met the poet Ezra Pound, an event that cemented his already firm interest in modern literature. He got a doctorate in literature from Harvard University in 1961. . His doctoral thesis was a pioneer study of Pound’s “Cantos.” From 1961 to 1963, he taught at Haverford College in Haverford, Pa. Before going to the UK, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard and Haverford College. Among his many books, some of the best-known were: Tatlin! Six Stories (1974); Da Vinci’s Bicycle: Ten Stories (1979); Eclogues: Eight Stories (1981); The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (1981); Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations 1950-1980 (1986); Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays (1986); The Jules Verne Steam Balloon: Nine Stories (1987); The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers (1990); The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art (1996); Objects on a Table: Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature (1998); and The Death of Picasso: New & Selected Writing (2003). Davenport’s awards included a 1992 honorary doctorate from UK, the O. Henry Award for short stories, the 1981 Morton Douwen Zabel award for fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, translation awards from PEN and the Academy of American Poets, and the Leviton-Blumenthal Prize for poetry. In 1998, he was elected a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Davenport donated his remains to the Body Bequeathal Program in the UK College of Medicine for teaching and research.