Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named for the university's former professor of fine arts. Distinguished creative figures and scholars in the arts, including painting, architecture, and music deliver customarily six lectures. The lectures are usually dated by the academic year in which they are given, though sometimes by just the calendar year.

Many but not all of the Norton Lectures have subsequently been published by the Harvard University Press. The following table lists all the published lecture series, with academic year given and year of publication, together with unpublished lectures as are known. Titles under which the lectures were published are not necessarily titles under which they were given.

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

Table of lecturers and lectures held:
YearsLecturerTitlePublished
1926–1927Gilbert MurrayThe Classical Tradition in Poetry1927
1927–1928Eric MaclaganItalian Sculpture of the Renaissance1935
1929–1930H. W. GarrodPoetry and the Criticism of Life1931
1930–1931Arthur M. HindRembrandt1932
1931–1932Sigurður 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
1933–1934Laurence BinyonThe Spirit of Man in Asian Art1935
1935–1936Robert Frost
1936–1937Johnny RoosvalThe Poetry of Chiaroscuro
1937–1938Chauncey Brewster TinkerPainter and Poet: Studies in the Literary Relations of English Painting1938
1938–1939Sigfried GiedionSpace, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition1941
1939–1940Igor StravinskyPoetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons1942
1940–1941Pedro Henriquez-UreñaLiterary Currents in Hispanic America1945
1947–1948Erwin PanofskyEarly Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character1953
1948–1949C. M. BowraThe Romantic Imagination1949
1949–1950Paul HindemithA Composer's World: Horizons and Limitations1952
1950–1951Thornton Wilder
1951–1952Aaron CoplandMusic and Imagination1952
1952–1953E. E. Cummingsi: six nonlectures1953
1953–1954Herbert ReadIcon and Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness1955
1955–1956Edwin MuirThe Estate of Poetry1962
1956–1957Ben ShahnThe Shape of Content1957
1957–1958Jorge GuillénLanguage and Poetry: Some Poets of Spain1961
1958–1959Carlos ChávezMusical Thought1961
1960–1961Eric Bentley
1961–1962Pier Luigi NerviAesthetics and Technology in Building1965
1962–1963Leo SchradeTragedy in the Art of Music1964
1964–1965Cecil Day-LewisThe Lyric Impulse1965
1966–1967Meyer SchapiroRomanesque Architectural Sculpture2006
1967–1968Jorge Luis BorgesThis Craft of Verse2000
1968–1969Roger SessionsQuestions about Music1970
1969–1970Lionel TrillingSincerity and Authenticity1972
1970–1971Charles EamesProblems Relating to Visual Communication and the Visual Environment
1971–1972Octavio PazChildren of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde1974
1973–1974Leonard BernsteinThe Unanswered Question1976
1974–1975Northrop FryeThe Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance1976
1977–1978Frank KermodeThe Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative1979
1978–1979James CahillThe Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting1982
1979–1980Helen GardnerIn Defence of the Imagination1982
1980–1981Charles RosenThe Romantic Generation1995
1981–1982Czesław MiłoszThe Witness of Poetry1983
1983–1984Frank StellaWorking Space1986
1985–1986Italo CalvinoSix Memos for the Next Millennium1988
1987–1988Harold BloomRuin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present1989
1988–1989John CageI-VI1990
1989–1990John AshberyOther Traditions2000
1992–1993Umberto EcoSix Walks in the Fictional Woods1994
1993–1994Luciano BerioRemembering the Future2006
1994–1995Nadine GordimerWriting and Being1995
1995–1996Leo Steinberg"The Mute Image and the Meddling Text"
1997–1998Joseph KermanConcerto Conversations1999
2001–2002George SteinerLessons of the Masters2003
2003–2004Linda NochlinBathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye2006
2006–2007Daniel BarenboimMusic Quickens Time2008
2009–2010Orhan PamukThe Naive and the Sentimental Novelist2010
2011–2012William Kentridge Six Drawing Lessons 2012
2013–2014Herbie HancockThe Ethics of Jazz
2015–2016Toni MorrisonThe Origin of Others - The Literature of Belonging

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