Charles Eliot Norton, född 16 november 1827, död 21 oktober 1908 var en ledande amerikansk författare, samhällskritiker och professor i "fine arts". Han var militant idealist, progressiv social förnyare och en liberal aktivist som av många av sina samtida ansågs vara den mest kultiverade personen i USA.Dowling, Linda. Charles Eliot Norton: The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America. (University of New Hampshire Press, 2007) 245pp .)
Charles Eliot Norton-föreläsningar
Charles Eliot Norton-professuren i poesi vid Harvard University instiftades 1925 som en årlig föreläsningsserie i "poesi i dess vidaste betydelse" och uppkallad efter professorn i "fine arts", Charles Eliot Norton. Berömda konstnärer och vetenskapsmän inom måleri, arkitektur och musik ger vanligen sex föreläsningar. Föreläsningarna numreras efter det läsår då de ges, eller efter kalenderåret.
Läsår Föreläsare, föreläsningarnas titel – tryckår 1926-1927 Gilbert Murray, The Classical Tradition in Poetry – 1927 1927-1928 Eric Maclagen, Italian Sculpture of the Renaissance – 1935 1929-1930 H. W. Garrod, Poetry and the Criticism of Life – 1931 1930-1931 Arthur M. Hind, Rembrandt – 1932 1931-1932 Sigurður Nordal 1932-1933 T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England – 1933 1933-1934 Laurence Binyon, The Spirit of Man in Asian Art – 1935 1935-1936 Robert Frost 1936-1937 Johnny Roosval, The Poetry of Chiaroscuro 1937-1938 Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Painter and Poet: Studies in the Literary Relations of English Painting – 1938 1938-1939 Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition – 1941 1939-1940 Igor Stravinskij, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons – 1942 1940-1941 Pedro Henriquez-Ureña, Literary Currents in Hispanic America – 1945 1947-1948 Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character – 1953 1948-1949 C. M. Bowra, The Romantic Imagination – 1949 1949-1950 Paul Hindemith, A Composer's World: Horizons and Limitations – 1952 1950-1951 Thornton Wilder 1951-1952 Aaron Copland, Music and Imagination – 1952 1952-1953 E.E. Cummings, i: six nonlectures – 1953 1953-1954 Herbert Read, Icon and Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness – 1955 1955-1956 Edwin Muir, The Estate of Poetry – 1962 1956-1957 Ben Shahn, The Shape of Content – 1957 1957-1958 Jorge Guillén, Language and Poetry: Some Poets of Spain – 1961 1958-1959 Carlos Chavez, Musical Thought – 1961 1960-1961 Eric Bentley 1961-1962 Pier Luigi Nervi, Aesthetics and Technology in Building – 1965 1962-1963 Leo Schrade, Tragedy in the Art of Music – 1964 1964-1965 Cecil Day Lewis, The Lyric Impulse – 1965 1966-1967 Meyer Schapiro, Romanesque Architectural Sculpture – 2006 1967-1968 Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse – 2000 1968-1969 Roger Sessions, Questions about Music – 1970 1969-1970 Lionel Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity – 1972 1970-1971 Charles Eames 1971-1972 Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde – 1974 1973-1974 Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question – 1976 1974-1975 Northrop Frye, The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance – 1976 1977-1978 Frank Kermode, The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative – 1979 1978-1979 James Cahill, The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting – 1982 1979-1980 Helen Gardner, In Defence of the Imagination – 1982 1980-1981 Charles Rosen, The Romantic Generation – 1995 1981-1982 Czesław Miłosz, The Witness of Poetry – 1983 1983-1984 Frank Stella, Working Space – 1986 1985-1986 Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium – 1988 1987-1988 Harold Bloom, Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present – 1989 1988-1989 John Cage, I-VI – 1990 1989-1990 John Ashbery, Other Traditions – 2000 1992-1993 Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods – 1994 1993-1994 Luciano Berio, Remembering the Future – 2006 1994-1995 Nadine Gordimer, Writing and Being – 1995 1995-1996 Leo Steinberg, The Mute Image and the Meddling Text || 1997-1998 Joseph Kerman, Concerto Conversations – 1999 2001-2002 George Steiner, Lessons of the Masters – 2003 2003-2004 Linda Nochlin, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye – 2006 2006-2007 Daniel Barenboim, Music Quickens Time – 2008 2009-2010 Orhan Pamuk, Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Då årtal saknas ägde inga föreläsningar rum.
Referenser
Vidare läsning Turner, James C. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
Externa länkar
Eliot Norton Park i Boston, Massachusetts Charles Eliot Norton Papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University
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