See also: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
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Eliot, See also:president of Harvard, being his See also:cousin
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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
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See also:Boston, for which he travelled to See also:India in 1849
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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
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
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
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
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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