A poet's experiences outside of time and reality. The youthful poet's judgment by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, Pallas Athena's palace, the Goddess's spear piercing the poet's heart, the Sphinx's temptation, Oedipus' flight, and the last Assumption The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950), and Testament of Orpheus are the three parts of Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy (1960).