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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 Unanswered Question is a lecture series given by Leonard Bernstein in the fall of 1973. This series of six lectures was a component of Bernstein's duties as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the 1972/73 academic year at Harvard University, and is therefore often referred to as the Norton Lectures.
Charles Eliot Norton (November 16, 1827 – October 21, 1908) was an American author, social critic, and Harvard professor of art based in New England. He was a progressive social reformer and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States. [ 1 ]
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA; Distinctive Voices, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, presents lectures on a wide range of scientific and technical topics at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA and the Jonsson Center in Woods Hole, MA [6] The Morgenthau Lectures, at the Carnegie Council in ...
Charles Eliot Norton Lectures; R. Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures; U. The Unanswered Question (lecture series) W. William James Lectures This page was last edited on 25 ...
Norton, who suffered from severe depression and mental illness, died in July 2019 at the age of 24. Born in Washington, D.C., he grew up in Bali, Singapore and France.
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The lectures examine what Trilling described as "the moral life in process of revising itself", a period of Western history in which, argues Trilling, sincerity became the central aspect of moral life (first observed in pre–Age of Enlightenment literature such as the works of Shakespeare), later to be replaced by authenticity (in the ...