00000nmm a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685523046126104669 Buklod 20230522175747.0 a r |||| u| ta 230522r20221960nyu o j eng 9781681376028 (ebook) 22008152 DLC DCAL rda eng PN 1031 S49 2022eb Sewell, Elizabeth 1919-2001 author. The Orphic voice poetry and natural history by Elizabeth Sewell. New York New York Review Books [2022] ©1960 1 online resource (463 pages) text txt rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Published previously by Yale University Press in 1960 and by Harper Torchbooks in 1971. "The Orphic Voice is a book about the relationship between poetry and our place in and knowledge of the natural world written by one of the most original, distinguished, and visionary literary thinkers of the late twentieth century. 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, The Orphic Voice is an exercise in what Sewell calls mythic thinking. Myth is not, she argues, mere fable; it is instead a way of configuring our fundamental bonds to the living universe, and mythic thinking represents an ancient and vital form of reflection, uniting great poets like Shakespeare and Wordsworth and Rilke to remarkable thinkers and scientists as Francis Bacon, Giambattista Vico, and Michael Polanyi. The members of this 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, offers transformative readings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Prelude, and Rilke's Songs of Orpheus, among other masterpieces, while deepening our understanding not only of literature but of our biological and sexual being and bond to nature as a whole"-- Provided by publisher. Orpheus (Greek mythological character) In literature. Literature and science. Poetry. Electronic books. Schenck, David 1951- writer of introduction. Electronic Resource Available for the University of the Philippines Diliman on campus and remote access via EBSCO eBooks. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2912097 Click here to access thru OpenAthens (viewed 11 May 2023) FO UPD DCAL PN 1031 S49 2022EB Electronic Resource