Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures are a series of lectures that Harvard University has held annually since 1907 . It is named after the archaeologist Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), whose former student James Loeb founded it in 1907 in his honor. In 1909 Loeb established a foundation to finance the lecture series, the statutes of which stipulated that one or more important archaeologists should be invited as speakers every year. The speakers should be invited from other European countries if possible, but Americans were also allowed.
The speakers usually give six lectures each. The first speaker was the British archaeologist David George Hogarth (1862–1927) in 1907/08 . In accordance with a universal understanding of archeology, not only representatives of the specialist discipline were invited, but also art historians, writers and musicologists.
Important speakers
- Gilbert Murray (1926/27) The Classical Tradition in Poetry
- Eric Maclagen (1927/28) Italian Sculpture of the Renaissance
- HW Garrod (1929/30) Poetry and Criticism of Life
- Arthur M. Hind (1930/31) Rembrandt
- TS Eliot (1932/33) The Use of Poetry an the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England
- Laurence Binyon (1933/34) The Spirit of Man in Asian Art
- Robert Frost (1935/36)
- Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1937/38) Painter and Poet: Studies in the Literary Relations of English painting
- Sigfried Giedion (1938/39) Space, Time an Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
- Igor Stravinsky (1939/40) The Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons, German musical poetics
- Pedro Henriquez-Ureña (1940/41) Literary Currents in Hispanic America
- Erwin Panofsky (1947/48) Early Netherlandish Painting: It's Origins and Character
- Cecil Maurice Bowra (1948/49) The Romantic Imagination
- Paul Hindemith (1949/50) A Composer's World: Horizons an Limitations
- Thornton Wilder (1950/51)
- Aaron Copland (1951/52) Music and Imagination
- EE Cummings (1952/53) i. six nonlectures ("I. six non-lectures")
- Herbert Read (1953/54) Icon and Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness
- Edwin Muir (1955/56) The Estate of Poetry
- Ben Shahn (1956/57) The Shape of Content
- Jorge Guillén (1957/58) Language and Poetry: Some Poets of Spain
- Carlos Chavez (1958/59) Musical Thought
- Eric Bentley (1960/61)
- Pier Luigi Nervi (1961/62) Aesthetics and Technology in Building
- Leo Schrade (1962/63) Tragedy in the Art of Music
- Cecil Day-Lewis (1964/65) The Lyric Impulse
- Meyer Schapiro (1966/67) Romanesque Architectural Sculpture
- Jorge Luis Borges (1967/68) This Craft of Verse, dt. The craft of the poet
- Roger Sessions (1968/69) Questions about Music
- Lionel Trilling (1969/70) Sincerity and Authenticity
- Charles Eames (1970/71)
- Octavio Paz (1971/72) Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde
- Leonard Bernstein (1973/74) The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard, German music - The open question
- Northrop Frye (1974/75) The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance
- Frank Kermode (1977/78) The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative
- James Cahill (1978/79) The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th Century Chinese Painting
- Helen Gardner (1979/80) In Defense of the Imagination
- Charles Rosen (1980/81) The Romantic Generation
- Czesław Miłosz (1981/82) The Witness of Poetry
- Frank Stella (1983/84) Working Space
- Italo Calvino (1985/86) Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- Harold Bloom (1987/88) Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
- John Cage (1988/89) I-VI, Mesostics
- John Ashbery (1989/90) Other Traditions
- Umberto Eco (1992/93) Six Walks in the Fictionals Woods
- Luciano Berio (1993/94) Remembering the Future
- Nadine Gordimer (1994/95) Writing and Being
- Leo Steinberg (1995/96) The Mute Image and the Meddling Text
- Joseph Kerman (1997/98) Concerto Conversations
- George Steiner (2001/02) Lessons of the Masters, Ger. The master and his students
- Linda Nochlin (2003/04) Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye
- Daniel Barenboim (2006/07) Sound and Thought
- Orhan Pamuk (2009/10) The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
- William Kentridge (2011/12) Six Drawing Lessons
- Herbie Hancock (2014) The Ethics of Jazz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship (accessed April 2, 2015).