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Contents

 

THE NATURE OF ART

Aristotle, Poetics
Virginia Woolf, On Not Knowing Greek
Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Notebook
Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music
Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
Aaron Copland, The Gifted Listener
Roger Sessions, The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer and Listener
Theodore Roosevelt, An Art Exhibition

EPIC: TO HELL AND BACK

Virgil, The Aeneid
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Thomas of Celano, Dies Irae
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

COMEDY AND TRAGEDY

Aristophanes, Lysistrata
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear

SATIRE: INNOCENTS ABROAD

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Voltaire, Candide
Archpoet, Confessions of Golias

POETRY: NATURE OF LOVE AND LOVE OF NATURE

Frederich R. Burton, American Primitive Music
Sappho
Tibullus, Rustic Pleasures
Jaufrd Rudel, To His Love Afar
Walther von der Vogelweide, A Spring Song
Chong kug-in (Korea), Hymn to the Spring
Yi cho nyon (Korea), Untitled
Hwang chin-I (Korea), Untitled
Li-po, The Summit Temple
Li-po, Sorrow of the Long Gate Palace-I Sorrow of the Long Gate Palace-II The Steep Road to Shuh
Matsuo Basho, Selected Hokku
William Shakespeare, Sonnets
John Donne, The Bait
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintem Abbey
George Gordon, Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
Robert Browning, Home-Thoughts From Abroad
Anne Spencer, Life-long, Poor Browning, Dunbar
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening The Road Not Taken
William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old
John Mills Turner, Jr., Piedmont III Tidewater II