SS-07 Paintings and Poetry

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Art and Poetry
3 sessions 1 1/2 - 2 hours each
or Who inspired Whom when he or she saw the other’s work?
Session 1
Jane Newpeck “The Painting” and Winslow Homer “Breezing Up”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson “Ulysses” and Francesco Berlingieri “Ulysses”
John Keats “Isabella, or the Pot of Basil” and William H. Hunt “Isabella and the Pot of Basil”
W. H. Auden “Musee des Beaux Arts” and Bruegel “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Session 2
Nizami “Khosrow and Shirin” and Hana Shahnavaz “A Spark in the Emerald Forest”
Christopher Marlowe “Hero and Leander” and Cy Twombly “Hero and Leander”
Anna Akhmatova “Requiem” and Dina El Sioufi “Double Entendre”
Adrienne Rich “Mourning Picture” and Edwin Ramanzo Elmer “Mourning Picture”
Session 3
Sylvia Plath “The Disquieting Muses” and Giorgio de Chirico “The Disquieting Muses”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson “The Lady of Shalott” and William H. Hunt “The Lady of Shalott”
Wallace Stevens “The Man with the Blue Guitar” and Pablo Picasso “The Old Guitarist”
William Shakespeare Hamlet (IV, vii, 167-84) and John Everett Millais “Ophelia”