Harvard Poetry Walking Tour: Stop 1
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Welcome to the Harvard Poetry Walking Tour! This tour will lead you through campus by foot and ear, pairing classic Harvard landmarks with just a sampling of poets connected to the University. To begin this tour, you should be standing in the Old Yard, which is home to most freshman dormitories. Now listen to Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard alumna Tracy K. Smith read her poem “The Universe as Primal Scream.”
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Lowell House is home of the Lowell House bell tower, and where Robert Lowell once lived. The House itself is named after former Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, an ancestor of the poet. While living in the House, Lowell caused a scandal by dating an older woman named Anne Dick, of whom his...
Published 04/09/15
Published 04/09/15
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