Contents
Introduction
1. Persuasion of the Ordinary Citizen
2. Music and the Soul’s Harmony
3. Souls in Progress
4. The Composed Soul and the Composed Work of Art
5. The Music of the Educator
6. The Music of Courage
7. The Music of Gratitude
8. The Danger of Music in Persuasion
1. The Hero’s Courage
2. The Primitive Appeal to the Senses
3. The Three Songs of the Iliad
4. The Power of Imagination: Striving toward an Ideal
5. The Cadence
6. Teaching Homer in the Modern University
1. Judging Tales
2. The Knight’s Tale
3. The Miller’s Tale
4. The Clerk’s Tale
5. The Franklin’s Tale
6. The Merchant’s Tale
7. The Wife of Bath’s Tale
8. The Pardoner’s Tale
1. Shakespeare and Novelistic Characters
2. Novelistic Characters and Authority
3. Measure for Measure and the Problem of Allegory
4. Allegory and Realism
1. Teaching the Play
2. Authority
3. Freedom
4. The Highest Freedom
5. Reflections on Imagination
1. A Fugue with Three Voices
2. Resonant Forms
3. Invocaton to Book 1—The Pilgrim and the Poet
4. Invocation to Book 3
5. Invocation to Book 7
6. Invocation to Book 9
7. The Ending of the Poem: Pastoral in a New Key
10. The End is the Beginning: Pastoral in Search of a New Resonance
1. What Billy Budd May Mean
2. The Strolling Style
3. The New Order
4. Leaders
5. Reading and Pondering
6. Assessments
Postlude