Browse Items (3 total)

  • Tags: Letters

 

The Harvard Classics, Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES

034_Harvard_Classics_text.pdf
Description:
The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in…

The Harvard Classics, Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY

009_Harvard_Classics_text.pdf
The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in…

What Makes Franz Liszt Still Important?

This week sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt. Leon Botstein, President of Bard College and music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, explores what we can still learn from the life and music of…