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.

Not to be confused with the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship of the Archaeological Institute of America or the Norton Lectures at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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following table lists all the published lecture series, with academic year given and year of publication, together with unpublished lectures as are known.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 Mayger HindRembrandt1932
1931–1932Sigurður NordalThe Spirit of Icelandic Literature (8 lectures: ???—The Old Poetry—The Sagas of Iceland—...—The World of Reality—The World of Dreams...)[1][2][3][4]
1932–1933 T. S. Eliot The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England (The Relation of Criticism and Poetry—Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth—The Classical Tradition: Dryden and Johnson—The Theories of Coleridge and Wordsworth—The Practice of Shelley and Keats—Arnold and the Academic Mind—The Modern Mind: I—The Modern Mind: II)[1][5] 1933
1933–1934Laurence BinyonThe Spirit of Man in Asian Art1935
1935–1936Robert FrostThe Renewal of Words (The Old Way to Be New—Vocal Imagination, the Merger of Form and Content—Does Wisdom Signify—Poetry as Prowess (Feat of Words)—Before the Beginning of a Poem—After the End of a Poem)[6]
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 Henríquez 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 WilderThe American Characteristics in Classic American Literature (Adapting an Island Language to a Continental Thought—Thoreau, or the Bean-Row in the Wilderness—Emily Dickinson, or the Articulate Inarticulate—Walt Whitman and the American Loneliness)[7][8][9]
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 BentleyThe Springs of Pathos[10]
1961–1962Félix CandelaThe Paradox of Structuralism, Comments on the Collaboration Between Architects and Engineers, The Creative Process and the Expressiveness of Inner Space[11]
Buckminster Fuller
Pier Luigi Nervi Aesthetics and Technology in Building[12]1965
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 Masters (published as: Lasting Origins—Rain of Fire—Magnificus—Maîtres à Penser—On Native Ground—Unaging Intellect)[13]2003
2003–2004Linda NochlinBathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye (published as: Renoir's Great Bathers: Bathing as Practice, Bathing as Representation—Manet's Le Bain: The Déjuner and the Death of the Heroic Landscape—The Man in the Bathtub: Picasso's Le Meutre and the Gender of Bathing—Monet's Hôtel des Roches Noires: Anxiety and Perspective at the Seashore—Real Beauty: The Body in Realism—More Beautiful than a Beautiful Thing: The Body, Old Age, Ruin, and Death)[14]2006
2006–2007Daniel BarenboimSound and Thought (published in Music Quickens Time as: Sound and Thought—Listening and Hearing—Freedom of Thought and Interpretation—The Orchestra—A Tale of Two Palestinians—Finale)[15][16]2008
2009–2010Orhan PamukThe Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (What Happens to Us as We Read Novels—Mr. Pamuk, Did You Really Live All of This?—Character, Time, Plot—Pictures and Things—Museums and Novels—The Center)[17]2010
2011–2012William Kentridge Six Drawing Lessons (In Praise of Shadows—A Brief History of Colonial Revolts—Vertical Thinking: A Johannesburg Biography—Practical Epistemology: Life in the Studio—In Praise of Mistranslation—Anti-Entropy)[18]2012
2013–2014Herbie HancockThe Ethics of Jazz (The Wisdom of Miles Davis—Breaking the Rules—Cultural Diplomacy and the Voice of Freedom—Innovation and New Technologies—Buddhism and Creativity—Once upon a Time...)[19]
2015–2016Toni MorrisonThe Origin of Others - The Literature of Belonging (Romancing Slavery—Being and Becoming the Stranger—The Color Fetish—Configurations of Blackness—Narrating the Other—The Foreigner's Home)[20]2017
2017-2018
Frederick Wiseman		Wide Angle: The Norton Lectures on Cinema
(The Search for Story, Structure, and Meaning in Documentary Film: Part I—The Search for Story, Structure, and Meaning in Documentary Film: Part II)[21][22]		 
Agnès Varda(The 7th Art and Me—Crossing the Borders)[23][24] 
Wim Wenders(Poetry in Motion—The Visible and the Invisible)[25][26] 
2021-2022 Laurie Anderson Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds[27]
2023-2024 Viet Thanh Nguyen To Save and To Destroy: On Writing as an Other[28]

The post had no incumbent in years omitted.

References
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  2. "NORDAL LAUDS ICELAND IN FIRST NORTON TALK | News | The Harvard Crimson". The Harvard Crimson. November 28, 1931. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
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  6. "FROST GIVES SECOND NORTON TALK TONIGHT | News | The Harvard Crimson". The Harvard Crimson. March 18, 1936. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
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  12. Nervi, Pier Luigi (2018). Aesthetics and technology in building : the twenty-first-century edition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  13. "Lessons of the Masters — George Steiner".
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  15. "Barenboim to deliver Charles Eliot Norton Lectures". Harvard Gazette. 21 September 2006. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
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  22. "Frederick Wiseman: The Search for Story, Structure and Meaning in Documentary Film Part I". mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  23. "Agnès Varda: The 7th Art and Me". mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  24. "Agnès Varda: Crossing the Border". mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  25. "Wim Wenders: The Visible and the Invisible". mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  26. "Wim Wenders: Poetry in Motion". mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
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  28. O’Grady, Eileen (September 12, 2023). "Weaving refugee's life into histories of U.S., Vietnam".
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