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Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1952-1953
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[1953]
Language
English
Description
In this lecture series, American poet and writer E.E. Cummings discusses his life and work on a personal level. He concludes each lecture with a poetry reading lasting about fifteen minutes. He reads mostly works of other poets.
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1957-1958
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1961-1962
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1964-1965
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1949-1950
Publisher
P. Smith
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1971-1972
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1974-1975
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
"The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the lectures: "Nobody anywhere presents this material so warmly, so sincerely, so skillfully. As musical mind-openers they are first class; as pedagogy they are matchless." Mr. Bernstein considers music ranging...
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1977-1978
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1981-1982
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
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Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1983-84
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1985-1986
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature."-Boston Globe "A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing."-San Francisco Chronicle At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which...
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1987-88
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work...
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Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1988-1989
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Features Cage reading a mesostic (a literary form generated by chance operations) to allow the listener to experience it as delivered; also features a selection from the question-and-answer seminars that conveys the lively flavor of the event.
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1997-98
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English