Charles Eliot Norton

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.

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

Amerikanska professorer
Födda 1827
Avlidna 1908
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