Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - BOOK PB - New York Review of Books SE - xxii + 463 pp. CY - New York ID - aaam193 T1 - The Orphic Voice: Poetry and Natural History AU - Sewell, Elizabeth PY - 2022 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Compares William Shakespeare to Francis Bacon. Argues that they share common viewpoint 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." Focuses on Midsummer's Night Dream and King Lear. Introduction by David Schenck. ER -