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The Orphic Voice Elizabeth Sewell

SKU: BELL-47523122

$ 31.00 ~~$ 45.00~~ (-31%)

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Publisher: New York Review Books

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 1.31 MB

Author: Elizabeth Sewell

Language: English

Year: 2022

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The Orphic Voice Elizabeth Sewell by Elizabeth Sewell instant download after payment.

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...