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The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz: A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings; Selected, with an Introduction and Notes by Guy Davenport (1963)
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Sappho (1965)
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Flowers and Leaves (1966)
- Tatlin! (1974)
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Da Vinci's Bicycle: Ten Stories (1979)
Eclogues: Eight Stories (1981)
Herakleitos and Diogenes (1981)
Mimes of Herondas (1981)
Photography by Davenport
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (1981)
Cities on Hills: A Study of I-Xxx of Ezra Pound's Cantos (1983)
Montaigne's Travel Journal (1983) with Michel De Montaigne and Donald M. Frame (Translator)
Apples and Pears and Other Stories (1984)
Archilochus, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C. (1984)
The Bicycle Rider (1985)
Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations, 1950-1980 (1986)
Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays (1987)
The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (1987)
Balthus Notebook (1989)
The Drawings of Paul Cadmus (1989)
The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers
(1990)
Artists Sketchbooks (1992)
A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories (1993)
The Lark (1993)
Charles Burchfield's Seasons (1994) with Charles Ephraim Burchfield
Ezra (1994) with James Laughlin (Photographer)
Letters to Mencken from the Land of Pink Lichen (1994)
7 Greeks (1995)
Translations of poets Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman, Ariakreon, Herakleitos, Diogenes, and Herondas.
50 Drawings (1996)
Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder (1996) with Elizabeth Hutton Turner and Elizabeth Garrity Ellis
The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories (1996)
"Davenport's lyrical prose, his imaginative translations of classical and modern poetry, and his vast store of knowledge are on display in this collection of ten stories that range from Kafka's visit to a nude spa to a tour of modern-day Paris." -- Amazon.com
The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art (1996)
The Logia of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus (1996) with Benjamin Urrutia (Translator)
12 Stories (1997)
Objects on a Table : Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature (1998)
Harmonious disarray in art and literature
The Logia of Yeshua (1998) with Benjamin Urrutia
The sayings of Christ
The Death of Picasso: New & Selected Writings (2003)