Word: longfellow
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Jorge Guillen, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, discussed the unity of sound and meaning as seen in three Spanish poems, at the first of the Norton lectures last night in Longfellow Hall...
Papa's Fifty Grand. The Atlantic's nervous force was apparent in its first year, when Editor Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson pounded out white-hot antislavery editorials, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier contributed poetry, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who had given the Atlantic its name, wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. The Atlantic, long famed for its fiction, has "enjoyed a perpetual state of literary grace," as Professor Frank Luther Mott once noted. When Boston started fading as literary hub of the U.S., the magazine introduced its readers to such diverse talents as Bret...
Jorge Guillen, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry this year, will give the first of the Norton lecture series Tuesday evening. The Spanish poet will speak on "St. John of the Cross: the Ineffable Experience" in Longfellow Hall...
Jerome Davis, author and educator, will deliver a lecture entitled, "Peace and the Soviet Union," at the Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, tonight at 8 p.m. The meeting, sponsored by the Greater Boston Fellowship of Reconciliation, is open to the public...
...ritual in the traditional robes, white-thatched New England Poet Robert Frost, 82, will be given honorary degrees next month by both Cambridge and Oxford-one of the few Americans to be so honored in recent times. Other Americans to receive the same double distinction: Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1868 and Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell in 1873. Said Poet Frost: "I guess you could say this caps my career. After all, I've written only one book-one book of about 600 pages. That's about ten pages a year over a 60-year period...