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The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Series

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The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry was endowed in 1925 by C.C. Stillman (Harvard 1898). Incumbents are in residence through their tenure of the Chair, and deliver at least six lectures. The term “poetry” is interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts.

Previous holders of the Chair…
Italian Sculpture of the Renaissance
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0.00 · published 1935 · 3 editions

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    The Spirit of Man in Asian Art
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    3.50     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1935 · 15 editions
    About the Interest in spiritual healing has reache…

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    Literary Currents in Hispanic America
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1945 · 4 editions
    To provide a cultural survey of Latin America from…

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    Imagen e Idea: La Función del Arte en el Desarrollo de La Conciencia Humana
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    4.11     · 18 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1955 · 12 editions
    Ensayo encaminado a enseñar cómo ver las imágenes …

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    The Romantic Imagination
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    3.98     · 52 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1949 · 15 editions
    A critical guide to the poets of the romantic peri…

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    Lenguaje y poesia
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    4.08     · 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1961 · 6 editions
    First Edition hardcover.

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    El pensamiento musical;ARTE UNIVERSAL
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1961 · 4 editions
    El presente libro es el texto íntegro de las confe…

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    Tragedy in the Art of Music
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    0.00     · published 2013 · 4 editions
    Schrade's critical editions of works by Guillaume …

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    The Lyric Impulse
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 6 editions
    C. Day Lewis, the eminent poet, traces the “singin…

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    Questions About Music
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    3.73     · 15 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1970 · 7 editions
    "We are asked (to put it politely) for whom we are…

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    Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
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    4.11     · 1273 Ratings · 54 Reviews · published 1942 · 39 editions
    One of the greatest of contemporary composers has …

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    The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 1973 · 3 editions

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    Sincerity and Authenticity
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    4.12     · 310 Ratings · 39 Reviews · published 1972 · 27 editions
    Now and then, writes Lionel Triling, it is possibl…

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    The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance
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    4.13     · 133 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 1973 · 18 editions
    Northrop Frye’s thinking has had a pervasive impac…

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    The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative
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    4.13     · 103 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 1979 · 9 editions
    Frank Kermode has long held a distinctive place am…

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    The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
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    4.50     · 225 Ratings · 28 Reviews · published 1976 · 19 editions
    The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical cr…

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    The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting
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    4.31     · 16 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1982 · 9 editions
    A depiction of the development of Chinese painting…

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    In Defence of the Imagination
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1982 · 6 editions
    Helen Gardner is a vigorous and eloquent champion …

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    The Witness of Poetry
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    4.16     · 173 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 1983 · 8 editions
    Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for…

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    Working Space
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    4.29     · 51 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1986 · 3 editions
    Offers a critique of abstract painting that starts…

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    The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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    4.02     · 205 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 1964 · 1 edition
    The 1932-33 Norton Lectures are among the best and…

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    I–VI: MethodStructureIntentionDisciplineNotationIndeterminacyInterpenetrationImitationDevotionCircumstancesVariableStructureNonunderstandingContingencyInconsistencyPerformance
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    4.16     · 32 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1990 · 7 editions
    Dazzling innovation in a work by one of America's …

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    I : Six Nonlectures
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    4.16     · 605 Ratings · 49 Reviews · published 1953 · 26 editions
    The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warni…

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    Los hijos del limo
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    4.05     · 271 Ratings · 25 Reviews · published 1974 · 32 editions
    Spanish

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    Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry & Belief from the Bible to the Present
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    3.80     · 107 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 1987 · 2 editions
    Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the litera…

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    The Shape of Content
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    4.21     · 745 Ratings · 44 Reviews · published 1957 · 21 editions
    In his 1956–57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the …

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    Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
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    4.15     · 3295 Ratings · 275 Reviews · published 1994 · 10 editions
    In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco sh…

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    The Romantic Generation
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    4.33     · 213 Ratings · 21 Reviews · published 1995 · 14 editions
    What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical…

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    Other Traditions
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    4.14     · 108 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2000 · 10 editions
    One of the greatest living poets in English here e…

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    This Craft of Verse
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    4.31     · 1930 Ratings · 250 Reviews · published 1992 · 51 editions
    The Marvelous Borges
    Has another writer written to…

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    Lessons of the Masters
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    3.82     · 247 Ratings · 27 Reviews · published 2003 · 41 editions
    When we talk about education today, we tend to avo…

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    Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye
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    4.46     · 24 Ratings · published 2006 · 2 editions
    To the eye of some viewers, Renoir's Great Bathers…

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    Remembering the Future
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    4.09     · 23 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 6 editions
    In Remembering the Future Luciano Berio shares wit…

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    Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
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    4.15     · 488 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 1941 · 31 editions
    A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Arc…

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    Six Drawing Lessons
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    4.40     · 103 Ratings · 18 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions
    Over the last three decades, the visual artist Wil…

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    The Origin of Others
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    4.19     · 5025 Ratings · 675 Reviews · published 2017 · 31 editions
    America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes…

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