Charles Eliot Norton
American author
Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, social critic, and Harvard professor of art based in New England. He was a progressive social reformer and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the... Wikipedia
Born: November 16, 1827, Cambridge, MA
Died: October 21, 1908 (age 80 years), Cambridge, MA
Partner: Susan Ridley Sedgwick
Children: Richard Norton and Eliot Norton
Place of burial: Mount Auburn Cemetery, MA
Education: Harvard University
Books
The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, in Five Volumes: Vol. II; The Biglow Papers
Address at the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Building of the Old Meeting-house at Hingham, on the Eighth of August, 1881
1882
List of the Principal Books Relating to the Life and Works of Michel Angelo. With Notes
1879
Rudyard Kipling: A Biographical Sketch
1899
Orations and Addresses; Volume 1
The Poems of John Donne; Volume 1
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Charles Eliot Norton (November 16, 1827 – October 21, 1908) was an American author, social critic, and Harvard professor of art based in New England.
Nov 12, 2024 · American scholar and man of letters, an idealist and reformer by temperament, who exhibited remarkable energy in a wide range of activity.
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In late-19th-century Boston, Harvard University professor Charles Eliot Norton was at the center of the intellectual and cultural “flowering of New England.
May 29, 2024 · Norton organized exhibitions of Pre-Raphaelite art in New York and Boston in 1857 and 1858 and purchased works from them, and he became a ...
First Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University; influential mentor for a generation of art historians. Norton was born to a wealthy Boston family with strong ...
Harvard's preeminent lecture series in the arts and humanities, the Norton Lectures recognize individuals of extraordinary talent.
On October 10, 1970, Charles delivered the first of his six Norton Lectures. He began by talking about the problems of “making choices.”
In 1970 Charles was appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. The Norton chair is traditionally held by an individual ...
Nov 13, 2023 · Charles Eliot Norton's life can be broken into two neat halves: conservative optimism before 1870 and conservative pessimism thereafter. The ...