Word: poggiolis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, "Reading and Explanation of Dante's Comedy" is being taught instead by Renato Poggioli, Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature. Poggioli had agreed to take over the course after Auerbach, an authority on Dante, had told the department that an illness would keep him from Harvard this fall...
King Ocdipus will once again kill his father and marry his mother, and Prince Hamlet will be just as confused as he was the last time, as Professor Poggioli studies "Ideas of Tragedy" on Long fellow Terrace. Most of the other well-known victims of Fate and playwrights will appear too, in "Comparative Literature...
...members of the committee choosing Muir were Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; John P. Coolige '35, associate professor of Fine Arts; Renato Poggioli, professor of Slavic; Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature; and Huntington Cairns, director of the National Gallery in. Washington...
...Poggioli's teaching activities since then have not been limited to Harvard. Last year he won a Fulbright Scholarships and took a leave of absence to lecture at his alma mater in Florence. Just to keep busy, he also made a lecture junket throughout Italy under the auspices of the U.S. Information Office, and in his spare time he translated the Igor Tale, an old Russian epic, into Italian...
...Poggioli has written quite a few books himself, ranging from a study of Wallace Stevens (in Italian' to a collection of critical essays covering vast tracts of French and Italian literature. His courses here cover an equally broad mas of material: "Ideas of Tragedy," "The Symbolist Movement," 'European Classicism," "Dostoevsky and Tolstoy," and a few others. Many of Poggioli's colleagues consider him one of the two or three top scholars in comparative literature in the world. Concerning his plans for the future, he is working on a book which will analyze the whole field of avant-grade...