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A. Chronology of Lectures and Readings
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26 Sept 1932: Arrival in Boston, MA, on forty-fourth birthday
17 Oct: Reading at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
4 Nov: First Norton Lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: “Introduction”
15 Nov: Radcliffe Club of Boston, “The Experience of Poetry”
21 Nov: Unidentified address, as a Corresponding Member, at the annual meeting and dinner of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
25 Nov: Second Norton Lecture: “Apology for the Countess of Pembroke”
1 Dec: “The Bible as Scripture and as Literature,” Women’s Alliance, King’s Chapel, Boston
2 Dec: Third Norton Lecture: “The Age of Dryden”
9 Dec: Fourth Norton Lecture: “Wordsworth and Coleridge”
5 Jan 1933: “Edward Lear and Modern Poetry,” Scripps College, Claremont, CA
6 Jan: “The Development of Taste in Poetry,” University of California, Los Angeles, CA
9 Jan: “Edward Lear and Modern Poetry,” University of Southern California, Los Angeles
11 Jan: “The Development of Taste in Poetry,” University of California, Berkeley, CA
16 Jan: “The Study of Shakespeare Criticism,” Washington University, St. Louis, MO
19 Jan: “The Tendency of Some Modern Poetry,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, repeated 21 Jan, Women's Club of St. Paul
24 Jan: "Edward Lear and Modern Poetry," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
26 Jan: “Edward Lear and Modern Poetry,” Twentieth Century Club, University of Buffalo, NY
30 Jan: First Turnbull Lecture: “Toward a Definition of Metaphysical Poetry,” Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1 Feb: Second Turnbull Lecture: “The Conceit in Donne and Crashaw”
2 Feb: “The Tendency of Some Modern Poetry,” Poetry Society of Maryland, Baltimore
3 Feb: Third Turnbull Lecture: “Laforgue and Corbière in our Time”
7 Feb: First meeting of English 26: English Literature from 1890 to the Present Day; every Tuesday, Thursday, and occasional Saturdays through May 4, Harvard University
17 Feb: Fifth Norton Lecture: “Shelley and Keats”
19 Feb: Reading at Brown University, Providence, RI
23 Feb: “English Poets as Letter Writers,” Yale University, New Haven, CT
24 Feb: “Edward Lear and Modern Poetry,” Smith College, Northampton, MA
25 Feb: Informal talk to Blackstick Honorary Literary Society (“The Greatness of a Poet or Writer”) and reading, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
3 Mar: Sixth Norton Lecture: “Matthew Arnold”
9 Mar: Reading announced in Feb
13 Mar: Visit to Milton Academy, Milton, MA; entertained at tea by faculty; possibly gave undated talk, “Chat to English Teachers” (in outline) on the teaching of modern poetry; invited to give commencement address
14 Mar: Reading of poetry at Eliot House, Harvard University
17 Mar: Seventh Norton Lecture: “The Modern Mind”
18 Mar: Unidentified address to Signet Alumni Association, in the Club House, Harvard University
23 Mar: “The Bible and English Literature,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
24 Mar: “The Study of Shakespeare Criticism,” Haverford College, Haverford, PA
31 Mar: Final Norton Lecture: “Conclusion”
3 Apr: “Two Masters” [revised as “The Modern Dilemma”] Boston Association of Unitarian Ministers, King’s Chapel, Boston
6 Apr: “Edward Lear and Modern Poetry,” Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
10 Apr: “Two Masters,” Clerical Association of Massachusetts, Jamaica Plain, MA
20 Apr: “Edward Lear and the Meaning of Poetry,” The New School of Social Research, New York, NY
21 Apr: “The Verse of John Milton,” Columbia University, New York
24 Apr: “Modern Education and the Classics,” the Classical Club, Lowell House, Harvard University
27 Apr: Lecture on “Mallarmé” announced in
21 Apr; reading and discussion of poems substituted, The New School of Social Research
28 Apr: “The Tendency of Some Modern Poetry,” with readings of his poems as examples, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
3 May: “Edward Lear and Modern Poetry,” Wellesley College
6 May: Attends the Experimental Theater of Vassar College world premiere production of
7 May: Informal talk at Vassar College on “Modern Poetry,” illustrated by a reading
10 May: First Page-Barbour Lecture: “The Meaning of Tradition,” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; see volume 5 for Page-Barbour Lectures, published as
11 May: Second Page-Barbour Lecture: “Modern Poetry”
12 May...
