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1	Sonnets to Orpheus more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus is Rainer Maria Rilke's first and only sonnet sequence. It is an undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets, translated here by a master of translation, David Young. Rilke revived and transformed the traditional sonnet sequence in the Sonnets. Instead of centering on love for a particular person, as has many ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Night Tourist more books like this by Katherine Marsh In this haunting adventure, Marsh weaves together New York City's secret history and its modern-day landscape to create a highly vivid ghost world, full of magical adventure and page-turning action. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Orpheus and Greek religion; a study of the Orphic Movement more books like this by W. K. C. Guthrie The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut - and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought ... see all copies from $13.97! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
4	Orpheus more books like this by Charles Mikolaycak A picture book retelling of the Greek myth in which talented musician Orpheus travels to the underworld to try and reclaim Eurydice, his recently deceased wife. Orpheus does mange to persuade the gods to free Eurydice but when he doesn't live up to his end of the bargain the result is tragedy for all. Illustrated with color paintings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Sonnets to Orpheus, Bilingual Edition more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, C F Macintyre (Translator) Breathing, you invisible poem World-space in pure continuous interchangewith my own being. Equiposein which I rhythmically transpire.Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured, stands as the poet's final masterwork. In these meditations on the constant flux of our world and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.01! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Le bestiaire, ou, Cortège d'Orphée more books like this by Guillaume Apollinaire, Raoul Dufy see all copies from $9.95! new only from $176.60! \| first editions
7	Orpheus in the Middle Ages more books like this by John Block Friedman John B. Friedman takes the reader through the journey of a myth -- where Orpheus becomes an Orpheus-Christus, a courtly knight and the writer of love lyrics. see all copies from $10.39! new only from $24.35! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Yij & the Journey to the Under more books like this by Megan Stine, H William Stine Indy's in Athens in January 1914, on the trail of a fabulous golden bowl etched with figures from Greek mythology. It's just been stolen by a fabled underworld character. While searching for the thief, Indy realizes he's reliving the legend of the ancient Greek hero Orpheus--and that means he's due for a descent to the underworld too! see all copies from $2.09!
9	Outlandish Adventures more books like this by Paul Newham, Elaine Cox (Illustrator) Recreates the myth of the Greek poet-musician who charmed the whole world with the power and beauty of his song. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy more books like this by Melissa F Zeiger Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, the scope of her investigation is grand: from John ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
11	Legacies: Prometheus, Orpheus, Socrates more books like this by Joan Mowat Erikson see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| first editions
12	The Orphic Voice : poetry and natural history more books like this by Elizabeth Sewell see all copies from $19.99! first editions
13	Orpheus and Eurydice more books like this by Dr. Sybil Grafin Schonfeldt, Iassen Ghiuselev (Illustrator), Pauline Hejl (Translator) The tragic tale of Orpheus, his gift for music, and his undying love for the oak nymph Eurydice is retold for children is this engaging picture book. This version of the classic story about the origins of singing according to Greek mythology features beautiful yet haunting color illustrations of Eurydice's journey from the forest to the Underworld ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions
14	Nightsong: The Legend of Orpheus and Eurydice more books like this by Michael Cadnum Orpheus, a brave musician who is dearly loved by the gods and admired by all of humankind, attempts to use the power of song to rescue his beautiful wife, Eurydice, from the Underworld after she dies from a serpent bite on their wedding day. When Orpheus finally reaches the center of the Underworld, Hades relents to his beautiful music and agrees ... see all copies from $2.22! new only from $4.00! \| first editions
15	The Arts of Orpheus, more books like this by Ivan M. Linforth see all copies from $120.00! first editions
16	Prince Orpheus more books like this by Paule Du Bouchet, Fabian Negrin (Illustrator) Prince Orpheus presents the story of young Orpheus and his magical music. With his singing and the sound of his lyre, Orpheus puts a scary fire-breathing dragon to sleep. He helps his friends, Jason and the Argonauts, capture the Golden Fleece. Then he saves his wife from the Underworld, thus showing that anything is possible with music, talking, ... see all copies from $2.08! new only from $2.65! \| SVS
17	The Friendship Song more books like this by Nancy Springer Harper learns about true friendship when she and her friend Rawnie find their way through the underworld of her new stepmother's backyard to bring their favorite rock singer back from the dead. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Urban Stampede and Other Poems more books like this by F D Reeve This new collection of poems by F.D. Reeve includes "The Urban Stampede", a dramatic narrative in poetic form, and twenty-four lyric poems. These narratives include spoken voice and singing and are shaped by a careful underlying distancing - the basic characteristic of narrative poetry. In this way, a well-known story is coolly evaluated for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.76! \| first editions
19 view cover	Sonnets to Orpheus Bilingual Edition more books like this by Maria Rainer Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Willis Barnstone (Translator) Written in February 1922, Rilkes Sonnets to Orpheus is one of the great poetic works of the twentieth century. The poems were written in memory of Vera Oukama Knoop, the daughter of two of Rilkes friends, who died tragically at the age of eighteen. In his wonderful translation, Willis Barnstone brings an approach honed through years of work on ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $5.83! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence more books like this by Professor Gregory Orr How can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades. Gregory Orr uses as his touchstone the assertion that myths ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $7.44! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Out of This World and Back Again: Three Stories more books like this by Robert Nye see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22 view cover	Virgil as Orpheus: A Study of the Georgics more books like this by M Owen Lee Though John Dryden once called the Georgics "the best Poem of the best Poet, " and Montaigne thought it the most highly finished work in all of poetry, Virgil's song of the earth has never won as many readers as has his Aeneid, and at present it is the subject of more debate among classicists than perhaps any other poem in Latin. Using a Jungian ... see all copies from $13.18! new only from $18.00! \| first editions
23	Sir Orfeo more books like this by Alan Joseph Bliss see all copies from $11.50! first editions
24 view cover	The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman more books like this by Seamus Heaney (Translator) Here, Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney offers translations of two classics. Books X and XI of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES bookend the lesser-known, 18th-century, Gaelic work THE MIDNIGHT COURT by Merriman. Both pieces regard men confronting groups of women. see all copies from $6.24! new only from $21.27!
25	Orphic Moment: Shaman to Poet-Thinker in Plato, Nietzsche, and Mallarme more books like this by Robert McGahey see all copies from $13.74! new only from $20.50!

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