OrpheusEurydice1.0319

OrpheusEurydice1.0319_Lawrence

OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"

D.H. Lawrence, "Medlars and Sorb-Apples," third poem in Birds, Beasts, and Flowers (New York: Seltzer/London: Secker, 1923).

The poet describes a mystical/mythic experience consuming medlar and sorb-apple.

A page of text with poetic verses about the soul, hell, and departure, including the phrase "Jamque vale!

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OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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