As he retraces his footsteps on his Orphean journey with Mizuki by his side, a tapestry of human experience unfurls. |
It has the beautiful name of the Orphean Warbler and the UK hasn't been visited by one of those for over 20 years. |
A Western Orphean Warbler caused a stir in Hartlepool and a European Roller graced a ploughed field at Aldbrough, East Yorks. |
Bee-eaters flew low overhead, uttering their wonderfully liquid call, while Ruppell's and Orphean warblers flitted from bush to bush, and a wryneck hopped out a few yards in front of me. |
They intermingled with the Greeks and gave them the Dionysian and Orphean cults, which later became so important in classical Greek literature. |
He recognises the mythical, Orphean role that poetry has played in our national conscience and the sense of identity. |