OrpheusEurydice2.0352_TennesseeWilliams

OrpheusEurydice2.0352_TennesseeWilliams

"Orpheus Descending" (1955)
OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"

Tennessee Williams, "Orpheus Descending," (1955), poem, in In the Winter of Cities, reprinted in The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams, edited by David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis (New York: New Directions, 2002), 14-15.

Williams approached the Orpheus theme in Battle of Angels (1940)=1.0352a, "Orpheus Descending", poem in In the Winter of Cities (1955) =2.0352, the revised drama, Orpheus Descending (1957)=1.0352b, and in his co-authored screenplay of The Fugitive Kind (1960) =2.0352b.

Pages from a book, likely a play or poem, titled "Orpheus Descending" by Tennessee Williams, with text in two columns

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