Orpheus: The Myth of the Poet

by Charles Segal and Professor Charles Segal

Book Overview

Charles Segal surveys the literary treatment of the Orpheus myth as the myth of the essence of poetry - the ability to encounter the fullest possible intensity of beauty and sorrow and to transform... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801847206
• ISBN13: 9780801847202
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"