Jonathan Morse  
Professor of English
University of Hawaii

at Manoa

 

Office: 

Kuykendall 518

 

 

Fall office hours:

MWF 9:30-10:20

and by appointment

 

Phone 808-956-8802

Fax 808-956-3083, 

attn. Jonathan Morse

E-mail jmorse@hawaii.edu

 

Blog: 

http://jonathan-morse.blogspot.com/

 

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

The Emily Dickinson International Society

 

The Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives For user ID, enter dickinson. For password, enter ink_on_disc.

 

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts 

 

 

UH Manoa English Department

 

University of Hawaii Library

 

Library of Congress

 

Web-based catalogs of other libraries, worldwide

 

 

 

Copyright © Jonathan Morse

 

Photograph of Apollo from ArtServe at the Australian National University, 

http://rubens.anu.edu.au  

 

 

Disclaimer: This is not an official University of Hawaii website. 

The contents of the page reflect only the views of the page's author, Jonathan Morse.

 

 

 

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