Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures are a series of lectures, which is organized annually by Harvard University since 1925. Named after a former professor of fine arts at this university, its theme is " poetry in the broadest sense," that is, the arts including painting, music and architecture. Artists such scholars encouraged usually six lectures.

Eminent speakers

  • Gilbert Murray (1926 /27) The Classical Tradition in Poetry
  • Eric Maclagen (1927 /28) Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance
  • H. W. Garrod (1929 /30) Poetry and Criticism of Life
  • Arthur M. Hind (1930 /31) Rembrandt
  • TS Eliot (1932 /33) The Use of Poetry in the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England
  • Laurence Binyon (1933 /34) The Spirit of Man in Asian Art
  • Robert Frost (1935 /36)
  • Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1937 /38) Painter and Poet: Studies in the Literary Relations of English painting
  • Sigfried Giedion (1938 /39) Space, Time on Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
  • Igor Stravinsky (1939 /40) The Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons, German musical poetics
  • Pedro Henriquez Ureña - (1940 /41) Literary Currents in Hispanic America
  • Erwin Panofsky (1947 /48) Early Netherlandish Painting: It's Origins and Character
  • C. M. Bowra (1948 /49) The Romantic Imagination
  • Paul Hindemith (1949 /50) A Composer 's World: Horizons of Limitations
  • Thornton Wilder (1950 /51)
  • Aaron Copland (1951 /52) Music and Imagination
  • EE Cummings (1952 /53) i six nonlectures, dt I. six non carryforwards
  • Herbert Read (1953 /54) Icon and Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness
  • Edwin Muir (1955 /56) The Estate of Poetry
  • Ben Shahn (1956 /57) The Shape of Content
  • Jorge Guillén (1957 /58) Language and Poetry: Handsome Poets of Spain
  • Carlos Chavez (1958 /59) Musical Thought
  • Eric Bentley (1960 /61)
  • Pier Luigi Nervi (1961 /62) Aesthetics and Technology in Building
  • Leo Schrade (1962 /63) Tragedy in the Art of Music
  • Cecil Day-Lewis (1964 /65) The Lyric Impulse
  • Meyer Schapiro (1966 /67) Romanesque Architectural Sculpture
  • Jorge Luis Borges (1967 /68) This Craft of Verse, dt The craft of the poet
  • Roger Sessions (1968 /69) Questions about Music
  • Lionel Trilling (1969 /70) Sincerity and Authenticity
  • Charles Eames (1970 /71)
  • Octavio Paz (1971 /72) Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant -Garde
  • Northrop Frye (1974 /75) The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance
  • Frank Kermode (1977 /78) The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative
  • James Cahill (1978 /79) The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th Century Chinese Painting
  • Helen Gardner (1979 /80) In Defence of the Imagination
  • Charles Rosen (1980 /81) The Romantic Generation
  • Czesław Miłosz (1981 /82) The Witness of Poetry
  • Frank Stella (1983 /84) Working Space
  • Italo Calvino (1985 /86) Six Memos for the Next Millennium
  • Harold Bloom (1987 /88) Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
  • John Cage (1988 /89) I-VI, Mesostics
  • John Ashbery (1989 /90) Other Traditions
  • Umberto Eco (1992/ 93) Six Walks in the Woods Fictionals
  • Luciano Berio (1993 /94) Remembering the Future
  • Nadine Gordimer (1994 /95) Writing and Being
  • Leo Steinberg (1995 /96) The Mute Image and the Meddling text
  • Joseph Kerman (1997 /98), Concerto Conversations
  • George Steiner ( 2001/ 02) Lessons of the Masters, dt The Master and his students
  • Linda Nochlin (2003/ 04) Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye
  • Daniel Barenboim (2006/ 07) Sound and Thought
  • Orhan Pamuk (2008/ 09) The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
  • Harvard University
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