Introduction to the arts: a statue of Apollo from the Archaic period and a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

Course material

English 271, Fall 2010

Classroom policies

Syllabus

A quiz about tragedy

Three theories of tragedy

A ship larger and more luxurious than the Titanic but not possessing the tragic element of beauty

Oedipus

Oedipus at Colonus: "The grey-leafed tree, the children's nourisher" (olive tree, Hamilton Library lawn)

Notes: the social background of Another Antigone

Notes for The Importance of Being Earnest

English 353, Fall 2010

Syllabus

Classroom policies

T. S. Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

"Tradition and the Individual Talent": a teaching aid

For Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: a pair of stereopticon images, published in about 1865, showing the South Ferry terminal in Manhattan. Since Whitman was back in Brooklyn in 1865, it's possible that this is one of the boats he actually rode. Source: New York Public Library, http://digitalgallery.nypl.org

The South Ferry stereo image in anaglyphic 3D (requires red-and-blue stereo glasses).

Links to online archives (click any line to connect)

Link to Representative Poetry Online

Link to New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Link to the photo archive at George Eastman House

Link to books.google.com, a vast downloadable library

Link to Bartleby.com, electronic publisher of free books

Link to PennSound, the University of Pennsylvania's audio and video poetry archive

For Wordsworth: images of the Lake District from Curved Light.net

Links to libraries and organizations

Web-based catalogs of other libraries, worldwide

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Photograph of Apollo from ArtServe at the Australian National University, 

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