Tag: Lawrence Buell

  • Nation & World

    Thoreau at Walden, and at Houghton

    Harvard Professor Emeritus Lawrence Buell reflects on the lasting importance of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” on the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Walt Whitman’s war

    A Harvard panel assesses Walt Whitman’s vivid and pictorial ‘Drum-Taps,’ a collection of Civil War poems out in print for the first time in 150 years. Professor Elisa New will explore “Drum-Taps” (along with Melville’s war poems) in a new HarvardX online American poetry course, which launches May 8.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    When religion turned inward

    A groundbreaking speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson at Harvard Divinity School in 1838 helped to transform faith, spur the transcendentalist movement, and change the future of Harvard.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Intellect, rigor, tradition

    The Literary Exercises, Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa tradition, honor 72 seniors for their achievements.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Walden’ for the 21st century

    In a lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, scholar Lawrence Buell examined the continuing relevance of Thoreau’s “Walden” and the importance of voluntary simplicity.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reality check

    Author-turned-activist Bill McKibben says the fight to arrest global warming requires an international movement to force political change.

    6 minutes