CHARLES ELIOT NORTON (16 November 1827-21 October 1908), businessman, author, translator, and teacher, was a true Boston Brahmin; born in Cambridge, the son of Andrews Norton, Dexter Professor of Sacr...
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Charles Eliot Norton, scholar, editor, critic, teacher, and translator, was the distinguished son of a distinguished New England family. As an active and valued member of Boston's intellectual communi...
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Charles Eliot Norton's aim throughout his career was to demonstrate how literature and art could serve as moral exemplars for the United States. Intimately connected by birth and associations to Ralph...
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“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This...
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“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This...
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Charles Eliot Norton
19th-Century Demigods Separated by the East River
