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VOLUME III Contents

CONTENTS

Volume III

Acknowledgements

Lynchburg College Symposium Readings, Senior Symposium,

and the LCSR Program

Introduction to Volume III

On Truths and on Shapes

PART I. TRUTHS: PHILOSOPHICAL,

THEORETICAL, CULTURAL

Philosophy, Theory, Cultural Heritage

Plato

The Republic, Book X

Pausanias

Description of Greece

Saint Augustine

The Confessions

Karl Marx & Frederick Engels

The German Ideology

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Twilight of the Idols

Franz Boas

Primitive Art

John Cotton Dana

The Gloom of the Museum

Roland Barthes

"Toys"

Vine Deloria, Jr

God is Red

PART II. SHAPES: NARRATIVE

Narrative

Anonymous

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Herodotus

The History

Anonymous

Bhagavad Gita, The Song Celestial

Francesco Petrarch

"The Ascent of Mount Ventoux"

Miguel de Cervantes

The History of Don Quixote

PART III. SHAPES: DRAMA

Drama

Aristotle

Poetics

Aristophanes

Lysistrata

William Shakespeare

Othello

George Bernard Shaw

Caesar and Cleopatra

PART IV. SHAPES: VERSE

Poetry: Infinity of Reflections

Sappho

Selected poems

Caedmon

"Caedmon's Hymn"

Anonymous

Beowulf

Anonymous

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Thomas De Celano

"Dies Irae"

Li-Po

"Nocturne"

"On a Picture Screen"

"By the Great Wall"

"On Hearing the Flute at Lo Cheng One Spring Night"

Selected Poetry in Japanese

Workman (Hitomaro) "The Construction of the Palace of Fujiwara"

Anonymous "God-music"

Tachibana Akemi "Poems of solitary delights"

Kawahigashi Hekigoto "Cold Spring Day"

Tsuchiï Bansui "Moon over the ruined castle"

Shimazaki Toson "By the old castle at Komoro"

Michelangelo

"In this mere living stone" and "The course of my long life"

Shakespeare

Sonnets: 21, 23, 24

William Blake

"To the Muses"

John Keats

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Ozymandias"

Robert Browning

"My Last Duchess"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Ulysses"

William Wordsworth

"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"

Emma Lazarus

"The New Colossus"

W.H. Auden

"Musée des Beaux Arts"

Anne Spencer

"Life-Long, Poor Browning"

"Dunbar"

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Archaic Torso of Apollo"

Federico García Lorca

"Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías"

Pablo Neruda

"Arise to birth with me my brother"

William Carlos Williams

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

"Hunters in the Snow"

PART V. SHAPES: MUSIC

What is Music?

Ludwig van Beethoven

Heiligenstadt Testament

Igor Stravinsky

Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

Aaron Copland

The Gifted Listener

Leonard Bernstein

The Joy of Music

Roger Sessions

The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer and Listener

PART VI. SHAPES: PAINTING AND SCULPTURE

Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture

Leonardo da Vinci

Notebooks

Washington Irving

Tales of the Alhambra

Charles Baudelaire

The Salon of 1846

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

[On Irregularity]

Paul Cézanne

Letters

Leo Tolstoy

What Is Art?

Bernhard Berenson

Florentine Painters of the Renaissance

John Berger

Ways of Seeing