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Singular Career of Prof Norton
By Walter Littlefield, the piece surveys Charles Eliot Norton as a renowned editor and scholar, detailing friendships with Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell, Ruskin, and Carlyle, his Dante work, translations of the Divine Comedy, and his influence in American letters. It notes his critical rigor, self-application, and prominence in Harvard circles.
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Charles Eliot Norton
Longfellow
Emerson
Lowell
Holmes
George William Curtis
FitzGerald
Carlyle
Ruskin
Norton
Europe
Charles Norton
Dante
Florence
North American Review
Omar Khayyam
Froude
John Rusk
Vevay
Geneva
St. Martin’s
John Brown
Scotland
England
France
Italy
James Ruesell Lowell
Tennyson
Goethe
Thomas Carlyle
John Ruskin
A. H. Clough
Charles Elliot Norton
Dante Society of Cambridge
Florentine
Harvard