Contents

Part 1

"Porphyria’s Lover"--Robert Browning
The Mad Gallop to the Renaissance
Literature in the English Language through the Ages
Magic Meter Word
Poets Laureate

Part 2

Study Guide for The Louvre:  The Golden Prison (MP 23)
The Artist Was a Woman (SL 1897)
Note on Nudes and Sexism
Note about Still-Life Genre
African-European & African-American Artists

Part 3

"My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
"Point of View" by James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed
Study Guide for "Florence, Birthplace of the Renaissance"
Study Guide for I, Leonardo da Vinci (VT 3615)
Study Guide for Michelangelo--The [Agonized, Ecstatic] Giant

Part 4

Guide to Hamlet, The Theatre, and All That
Some Common Dramatic Elements in Shakespeare
Problems in Hamlet for the Modern Reader

Part 5

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
The Chorale of Beethoven�s Ninth Symphony and "Ode to Joy" by  Friedrich Schiller
Robert Browning Looks at Renaissance Art and Architecture
Excerpt from "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"
Excerpt from "Fra Lippo Lippi"
A Final Note about Humanities