Tag: T.S. Eliot

  • Arts & Culture

    City of poets

    Eight student poets pick a corner of the city with historical, personal meaning and read an original work.

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    Let us listen then, you and I

    The George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room will celebrate its 90th anniversary by making some of its first recordings — of the poet T.S. Eliot reading his own work — available to the general public on March 19.

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    Parsing the poet, Bob Dylan

    A Harvard professor’s new book probes the influence of the great ancient poets, such as Homer and Virgil, on Bob Dylan and his music.

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    Poetic wandering

    This walking tour pairs classic Harvard landmarks with a sampling of the poets connected to the University — all in honor of National Poetry Month.

  • Campus & Community

    Home is where one starts out

    A student from Australia, far from home and legally blind, found her niche by singing in the Memorial Church choir.

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    Love Poems

    Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham celebrated the legacy of Harvard poets such as T.S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Wallace Stevens, with a student performance of their verse in “Over the Centuries: Poetry at Harvard (A Love Story).”

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    Poetry in motion

    Something about Harvard, one of the world’s most rigorous universities also helps poets to blossom. It has a lyric legacy that spans hundreds of years and helped to shape the world’s literary canon.

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    Treasure island

    Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.

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    Harvard, then and now

    Published to commemorate Harvard’s 375th anniversary, “Explore Harvard,” a collection of contemporary and historical photographs, showcases the myriad intellectual exchanges that make the University a citadel of learning.

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    Literary Luminaries

    James R. Russell Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

  • Campus & Community

    Voices from the trees

    To celebrate the University’s 375th anniversary, excerpts of famous speeches will play on loop from trees in Harvard Yard.

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    Why and how

    Professor Marjorie Garber’s new book examines “why we read literature, why we study it, and why it doesn’t need to have an application someplace else in order to be definitive in its talking about human life and culture.”

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    T.S. Eliot, warts and all

    An intimate exhibition at Houghton Library offers a revealing look at the early life of poet T.S. Eliot, who had his troubles as a Harvard student.

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    Emily as art

    A Harvard artist and wordsmith takes a turn at reimaging the poems of Emily Dickinson.