Established in 1925, the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry and its distinguished lecture series have for a century have brought to the Harvard community individuals of rare brilliance with particular achievement in language, music, or the visual arts. To commemorate its centenary, Harvard University Press presents five landmark books by John Ashbery, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Ben Shahn, and Igor Stravinsky, based on their Norton lectures, reissued with a new foreword by a distinguished contemporary voice. The Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities, the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Harvard University Press invite you to join us for a conversation on the vital role of the arts and humanities in public life with Stephanie Burt, Adam Gopnik, Vijay Iyer, and Viet Thanh Nguyen.
There will be a book sale at this event hosted by the Harvard Book Store, with the following books available for purchase: John Ashbery, Other Traditions; Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse; Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods; Ben Shahn, The Shape of Content; and Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons.
This event is free and open to the public; no registration required. For full event details, visit: https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/celebrating-100-years-norton-lectures-harvard
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