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