Norton Lectures
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Lectures held at Harvard University by distinguished academics. The initiative bears the name of Charles Eliot Norton. The first lectures were published in 1927. Today, the lectures are published in a collection of the Harvard University Press
[edit] Past Lectures
| Years | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1907-1908 | D. G. Hogarth | |
| 1927 | Gilbert Murray | "The Classical Tradition in Poetry" |
| 1931 | H. W. Garrod | "Poetry and Life" |
| 1932-1933 | T. S. Eliot | "The Use of Poetry and Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England" |
| 1938-1939 | Sigfried Giedion | "Space, time and architecture : the growth of a new tradition" |
| 1939-1940 | Igor Stravinsky | "Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons" |
| 1949-1950 | Paul Hindemith | "A Composer's World" |
| 1950-1951 | Thornton Wilder | |
| 1951-1952 | Aaron Copland | "Music and Imagination" |
| 1952-1953 | E.E. Cummings | "i: six nonlectures" |
| 1955-1956 | Edwin Muir | "The Estate of Poetry" |
| 1961-1962 | Pier Luigi Nervi | "Aesthetics and technology in building" |
| 1964-1965 | Cecil Day Lewis | "The Poetic Impulse" |
| 1967-1968 | Jorge Luis Borges | "The Craft of Verse" |
| 1968-1969 | Roger Sessions | "Questions about Music" |
| 1969-1970 | Lionel Trilling | "Sincerity and Authenticity" |
| 1971-1972 | Octavio Paz | "Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde" |
| 1972-1973 | Leonard Bernstein | "The Unanswered Question" |
| 1974-1975 | Northrop Frye | "The secular scripture : a study of the structure of Romance" |
| 1977-1978 | Frank Kermode | "The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of the Narrative" |
| 1979-1980 | Helen Gardner | "In Defense of the Imagination" |
| 1981-1982 | Czeslaw Milosz | "Witness to Poetry" |
| 1982-1983 | Eudora Welty | "One Writer's Beginnings" |
| 1983-1984 | Frank Stella | "Working Space" |
| 1985-1986 | Italo Calvino | "Six Memos for the Next Millenium" |
| 1987-1988 | Harold Bloom | "Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present" |
| 1988-1989 | John Cage | "I-VI" |
| 1989-1990 | John Ashbery | "Other Traditions" |
| 1992-1993 | Umberto Eco | "Six Walks in the Fictional Woods" |
| 1993-1994 | Luciano Berio | "Remembering the Future" |
| 1994-1995 | Nadine Gordimer | "Writing and Being" |
| 1995-1996 | Leo Steinberg | |
| 1997-1998 | Joseph Kerman | "Concerto conversations" |
| 2001-2002 | George Steiner | "Lessons of the Masters on the Art of Teaching" |
| 2003 | ?William Dembski | Intelligent Design |
| 2003-2004 | Linda Nochlin | "Bathers, bodies, beauty : the visceral eye" |
| 2005-2006 | Daniel Barenboim | "Sound and Thought" |
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