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Literary Currents in Hispanic America. Language and Poetry: Some Poets of Spain. The Romantic Generation of Chinese Writers. What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Order form » Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP ». Subscribe to E-News. In Defence of the Imagination Gardner, Helen Helen Gardner , a vigorous and eloquent champion of traditional literary values, feels that these values have been subverted by some of the ablest of modern academics and by prevalent tendencies in criticism and teaching today.

I—VI Cage, John There have never been lectures like these: delivered at Harvard in —89 as the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, they were more like performances, as the audience heard them. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Eco, Umberto In this exhilarating book, we accompany Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method.

This Craft of Verse Borges, Jorge Luis Mihailescu, Calin-Andrei This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the twentieth century. The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance Frye, Northrop Frye finds in romantic narratives of Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm.

Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition Giedion, Sigfried A classic work, first published in , translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, Space, Time and Architecture is an the unparalleled work on the shaping of our architectural environment.

The Shape of Content Shahn, Ben American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist—painter, writer, composer—to his material, his craft, and his society. The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting Cahill, James James Cahill explores the radiant painting of that tumultuous era when the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China dramatically changed the lives and thinking of artists and intellectuals.

Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons Stravinsky, Igor Knodel, Arthur Dahl, Ingolf One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer.

Democracy, he mused may be incompatible with a "healthy culture. Unashamedly subjective, his influence rests largely on the scholars he encouraged rather than his own writings. Letters of Charles Eliot Norton. Cambridge, MA: Press of J. Wilson and Son, ; and Ruskin, John. Notes on Drawings. History of Ancient Art. Boston: A. Bazin, Germain.

Paris: Albin Michel, , p. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, , vol. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ; [obituary] "Dr. Eliot Norton Dies in Cambridge.

Skip to main content. Norton, Charles Eliot Full Name:. Date Born:. Date Died:. The AIA, with Norton as its first president, was the first organization in the United States to promote the study of archaeology around the world. The Charles Eliot Norton Legacy Society was established to acknowledge the financial support of these exceptional benefactors during their lifetimes.

The Norton Society includes former presidents, trustees, and society members, as well as members of the public who love archaeology and AIA. They have taken measures to include the AIA in their estate plans. If you would like to join this forward-looking group of contributors, please call or email Elizabeth Bailey.