Fleshing out 'The First Poets': Orpheus

This weekend I started reading Michel Schmidt’s 'The First Poets'. Here’s the NYT review by Camille Paglia.

My only note to date on the book: Schmidt is a classical critic, in that his criticism is a work of art in itself.

For my own entertainment and pleasure, and maybe yours, as I read each chapter, I will link to various sites concerning that poet. The first is Orpheus.

Schmidt’s partial chapter on Orpheus

Wikipedia on Orpheus

Rilke’s 'Sonnets to Orpheus' translated by Howard A. Landman

Orpheus in the Perseus Encyclopedia

'The Hymns of Orpheus' translated by Thomas Taylor [1792]