Tag: Lawrence Buell

  • Arts & Culture

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    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.

    5–8 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Intellect, rigor, tradition

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

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    ‘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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Reality check

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

    5–8 minutes