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CHARLES ELIOT NORTON (1827-1908)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:ELIOT See also:NORTON (1827-1908)  , See also:American See also:scholar and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Cambridge, See also:Massachusetts, on the 16th of See also:November 1827 . His See also:father, See also:Andrews See also:Norton (1786–1853) was a Unitarian theologian, and See also:Dexter See also:professor of sacred literature at Harvard; his See also:mother was See also:Catherine See also:Eliot, See also:Charles See also:William Eliot, See also:president of Harvard, being his See also:cousin . Charles Eliot Norton graduated from Harvard in 1846, and started in business with an See also:East See also:Indian trading See also:firm in i Feet Mean Temperature,F . See also:Average above Precipitation, See also:Sea-level . Inches . Summer . See also:Winter . See also:Norway See also:House, See also:Keewatin . 710 19.26 See also:York Factory o 48.7° 12.6 28.73 Fort See also:Simpson, 41° 51' N . . 400 59.4° –to° Fort See also:Franklin, 65° 12' N . . 500 50.4° -17° ~ . See also:Boston, for which he travelled to See also:India in 1849 .

After a tour in See also:

Europe, he returned to See also:America in 1851, and thenceforward devoted himself to literature and See also:art . In 1881 Norton inaugurated the See also:Dante Society, whose first presidents were See also:Longfellow, See also:Lowell and Norton . He translated the Vita Nuova (186o and 1867) and the Divina Commedia (1891–1892, 2 vols.) . , After See also:work as secretary to the Loyal Publication Society during the See also:Civil See also:War, he edited from 1864–1868 the See also:North American See also:Review, in association with See also:James See also:Russell Lowell . In 1861 he and Lowell helped Longfellow in his See also:translation of Dante and in the starting of the informal Dante See also:Club . In 1875 he was appointed professor of the See also:history of art at Harvard, a See also:chair which was created for him and which he held until he became See also:emeritus in 1898 . The Archaeological See also:Institute of America See also:chose him to be the first president (1879–1890) . From 1856 until 1874 Norton spent much See also:time in travel and See also:residence on the See also:continent of Europe and in See also:England, and it was during this See also:period that his friendships began with See also:Carlyle, See also:Ruskin, See also:Edward See also:FitzGerald and See also:Leslie See also:Stephen, an intimacy which did much to bring American and See also:English men of letters into See also:close See also:personal relation . Norton, indeed, had a See also:peculiar See also:genius for friendship, and it is on his personal See also:influence rather than on his See also:literary productions that his claim to remembrance mainly rests . From 1882 onward he confined himself to the study of Dante, his professorial duties, and the editing and publication of the literary memorials of many of his See also:friends . In 1883 came the Letters of Carlyle and See also:Emerson; in 1886, 1887 and 1888, farlyle's Letters and Reminiscences; in 1894, the Orations and Addresses of See also:George William See also:Curtis and the Letters of Lowell . Norton was also made Ruskin's literary executor, and he wrote various introductions for the American " Brantwood " edition of Ruskin's See also:works .

His other publications include Notes of Travel and Study in See also:

Italy (1859), and an See also:Historical Study of See also:Church-See also:building in the See also:Middle Ages: See also:Venice, See also:Siena, See also:Florence (,88o) . He organized exhibitions of the drawings of See also:Turner (1874) and of Ruskin (1879), for which he compiled the catalogues . He died on the 21st of See also:October 1908 at " Shady-See also:hill," the house where he was born . He bequeathed the more valuable portion of his library to Harvard . In 1862 he had married See also:Miss Susan See also:Sedgwick . He had the degrees of Litt.D . (Cambridge) and D.C.L . (See also:Oxford), as well as the L.H.D. of See also:Columbia and the LL.D. of Harvard and of Yale .

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