My Favorite Things

“Poetry Painting & Music: the three Powers in Man of conversing with Paradise which the flood did not sweep away.” — William Blake, A Vision of the Last Judgment(1810)

My Favorite Poems Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (1321) (www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/index.html) William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey (1798) (www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/wordsworth/ww138.html) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855) (www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/whitman/index.html)

My Favorite Paintings Raphael, School of Athens (1508) (http://198.62.75.1/www1/stanzas/Aw-Athens.jpg) Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I (1514) (http://www.cslab.uky.edu/~elric/cs650/Melancholy/melencol.jpg) Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Bougival (1883) (http://pollux.bibl.u-szeged.hu/cgfa/renoir/p-renoir33.htm)

My Favorite Music Pachelbel, Pachelbel's Canon in D (17th century) (http://rodin.cs.uh.edu/~wjin/music/canon.html) Mozart, Piano Concerto #21 in C major (1785) (www.futurenet.com/classicalnet/reference/works/m/mozart-pcon21.html) Beethoven, 9th Symphony: Ode to Joy (1823) (www.byoc.com/homepage/10789/index.htm)

My Favorite Websites Virtual Parks: www.virtualparks.org (360º Panoramic Views of Nature) Larsons Publications: www.lightlink.com/larson (Insightful Books) New York Times: www.nytimes.com (Cybertimes: Internet Technology) Nobel Foundation: www.nobel.se (Bios & Photos of Nobel Laureates) Sistine Chapel: www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.html (Michelangelo's vision from the many to the one) Web Museum: http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm (Paintings by themes & artists)