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ROBERT FROST NAMES SIX FREE LECTURES

Chooses "Renewal of Words" as Subject for Norton Fellowship Talks During March and April

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"The Renewal of Words" is announced by Robert Frost, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, as the title of the six free public lectures he will deliver in March and April.

The dates and subjects of the individual lectures, which will be given at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, are as follows: March 4, "The Old Way to be New"; March 11, "Vocal Imagination the Merger of Form and Content'; on March 18, "Does Wisdm Signify"; on March 25, "Poetry as Prowess (Feat of Words)"; on April 8, "Before the Beginning of a Poem"; on March 15, "After the End of a Poem."

The Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry was established under a gift of $200,000 made in 1925 by Charles Chauncey Stillman '98, who died in 1926, in memory of Charles Eliot Norton '46, professor of the History of Art. The holder of the chair must be a man of high distinction and international reputation, under the terms of the gift, and must deliver at least six public lectures on poetry.

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