Tag: “On the Nature of Things”

  • Nation & World

    Stephen Greenblatt wins Pulitzer Prize

    Stephen Greenblatt, the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    On the nature of modern thought

    The story of 15th-century book hunter Poggio Bracciolini and his rediscovery of Lucretius’ “On the Nature of Things” was captured by Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt in his National Book Award-winning account, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.”

    17 minutes