"the tilted, broken walks, cracked by the roots of elms" That is a brilliant image. Very accurate, I can see it in my mind, from my childhood days in Columbus, Ohio where the elm trees still vaun...
Guy Davenport's Geography of the Imagination you mentioned. One of the most interesting facts I remember from it is it that the last names Tolkien gave the Hobbits he got from family names in Wes...
Thanks for this interesting discourse on bookstores, very informative. And thanks for introducing me to Anania, I am a big fan of Olson (I am reminded of Ahania, that abstract character in Blake'...