Word: maclagen
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Professor Eric R. D. Maclagen, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, has been chosen as the incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry for the coming year...
Professor Maclagen is one of the leading scholars in the United Kingdom. During his residence at the University he will give ten public lectures at the New Fogg Museum on "Italian Renaissance Sculpture", and will hold individual conferences with students working on various forms of poetry. He may give a seminar for graduate students in the second half of the academic year...
Succeeding Gilbert Murray of Oxford, Professor Maclagen is the second occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair, founded by the late C. C. Stillman '98. The holders of the chair are not confined to literary forms of poetry alone, but may treat music, painting, sculpture, architecture, or any branch of poetic art. Last year Professor Murray treated "The Classical Tradition in English Poetry...
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