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.[1]
| Charles Eliot Norton | |
 Charles Eliot Norton vid 76 års ålder. | |
| Född | 16 november 1827 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Död | 21 oktober 1908 (70 år)Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Yrke/uppdrag | Professor i fine arts, litteraturvetare |
| Maka | Susan Sedgwick |
| Föräldrar | Andrews Norton, Catherine Eliot |
Charles Eliot Norton-föreläsningar redigera
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 redigera
- ^ Dowling, Linda. Charles Eliot Norton: The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America. (University of New Hampshire Press, 2007) 245pp ISBN 978-1-58465-646-3.)
Vidare läsning redigera
- Turner, James C. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
Externa länkar redigera
Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Charles Eliot Norton.- Verk av Charles Eliot Norton på Project Gutenberg
- Eliot Norton Park i Boston, Massachusetts
- Charles Eliot Norton Papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University
