Robert Browning: Day 2

"Art was given for that; / God uses us to help each other so, / Lending our minds out" (ll.304-7).
"Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855)

Points of Reflection

1.according to the dervish, Ferishtah, why does God allow humans to experience physical pain? Why does He not summarily remove it?

2. what virtues does the narrator of "Abt Vogler" attribute to impromptu music which distinguish it from other art forms?

3. what examples of modern art would the narrators of "Pictor Ignotus" and "Fra Lippo Lippi" each approve?

"Madonna w/ Child and Two Angels" (1465)
Fra Lippo Lippi

Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu