The Orphic Voice: Poetry and Natural History painter and health concerns of the

and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium

" who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest

The author focuses on three pivotal Irish nationalist women's organisations – the Ladies Land League

from the National Book Award finalist

The Orphic Voice: Poetry and Natural History painter and health concerns of theAuthor Contributor(s): Sewell, Elizabeth; Schenck, David Publisher: NYRB Classics Date: 5 3 2022 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW 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