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The Orphic Voice: Poetry and Natural History (New York Review Books Classics), S
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- ISBN
- 1681376016
- Publication Name
- NYRB Classics
- Book Title
- Orphic Voice : Poetry and Natural History
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Topic
- Comparative Literature, Subjects & Themes / Nature, Poetry
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 17.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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A wondrously written book of literary criticism and philosophy that maps the relationship between poetry and natural history, connecting verse from poets such as Shakespeare and Rainer Maria Rilke to the work of scientists and theorists like Francis Bacon and Michael Polanyi. Taking its bearings from the Greek myth of Orpheus, whose singing had the power to move the rocks and trees and to quiet the animals, Elizabeth Sewell's The Orphic Voice transforms our understanding of the relationship between mind and nature. Myth, Sewell argues, is not mere fable but an ancient and vital form of reflection that unites poetry, philosophy, and natural science: Shakespeare with Francis Bacon and Giambattista Vico; Wordsworth and Rilke with Michael Polanyi. All these members of the Orphic company share a common perception that "discovery, in science and poetry, is a mythological situation in which the mind unites with a figure of its own devising as a means toward understanding the world." Sewell's visionary book, first published in 1960, presents brilliantly illuminating readings of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus , among other masterpieces, while deepening our understanding not only of poetry and the history of ideas but of the biological reach of the mind.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681376016
ISBN-13
9781681376011
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16050398499
Product Key Features
Book Title
Orphic Voice : Poetry and Natural History
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Comparative Literature, Subjects & Themes / Nature, Poetry
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
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Pn1031
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"This is an inspired book, an argument which is poetry in action. It may very well be that Elizabeth Sewell is of the visionary company which her work describes. I regard The Orphic Voice as a book of tremendous originality and importance." --George Steiner "Esoteric [and] engrossing . . . Sewell contends that poetry is our most inclusive form of thought, the best instrument yet devised for dealing with wholes, for unifying all the forms in nature, whether they pertain to inner or outer landscape." --Stanley Kunitz " The Orphic Voice is important both in the literature of the history of ideas and as a kind of source-book for working poets (and readers of poetry)." --Denise Levertov
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2021-014417
Dewey Decimal
809.1
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