Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor

but] he recognizes that most people will find it a grab-bag of memorable quotations, an ideal browsing book for the nightstand.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “A superb job. Figuratively speaking, this is the best book that can be found.” —Bryan A. Garner, author of Garner's Modern English Usage “I want this book to be beside my bed for years to come, a treasure-house of the liquid magic of words.” —Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman “A feat of elegant demystification...Farnsworth is able to focus on the finite material of metaphorical referents...a brilliant strategy, both in its utility for writers and the inherent insight Farnsworth’s divisions suggest about metaphors.” —Jonathan Russell Clark, The Millions “Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor promises and delivers a gallery of metaphor-masterworks...It is one of those books that inspires a reviewer to sing the delights of dipping in at random or of setting by a bedside for insomniac diversion...But there is another, less precious upshot to the book’s mosaic of metaphors: it gives emphasis not to the genius of individual authors, but to the potential of the English language.” —Essays & Criticism