Harvard Medical School

Marking 100 years of Norton Lectures

In November 1926, Oxford classics scholar Gilbert Murray stood before an audience in Harvard’s Lowell Lecture Hall to deliver the first-ever talk in the newly endowed Charles Eliot Norton ...
Harvard Medical School

Colleagues, students remember Helen Vendler, a ‘titan’ of poetry criticism

Beyond her passion for her work, they say, she was creative and engaged teacher, thoughtful adviser and mentor, trusted friend When Helen Vendler taught William Blake’s “The Lamb,” she often ended ...
Jazz

Herbie Hancock Appointed 2014 Norton Professor Of Poetry At Harvard

Always at the forefront of world culture, technology, business and music, legendary pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has been named the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor Of Poetry at Harvard ...
Publishers Weekly

HUP Announces Norton Lectures Centenary Editions

Harvard University Press (HUP) will reissue five titles from its Charles Eliot Norton Lectures series, including Jorge Luis Borges’s This Craft of Verse and Umberto Eco’s Six Walks in the Fictional ...
The Root

Herbie Hancock Named Professor of Poetry at Harvard

Herbie Hancock, one of the architects of contemporary American music, who has left his fingerprints in just about every form of the art, is now the Harvard University 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry, ...