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Dr. Pedro Henriquez-Urena, distinguished South American poet and critic, will begin his series of free, public lectures, as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, tomorrow night, speaking on the topic "The Discovery of the New World by the Imagination of Europe," in the Large Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum, at 8:15 o'clock.
The general subject of Dr. Henriquez-Urena's series of lectures at Harvard will be "In Search of Expression: Literary and Artistic Creation in Hispauic America." The topic on November 13 will be "The Creation of a New Society;" and November 20, "The Flowering of the Colonial World."
Dr. Henriquez-Urena is widely known as a poet, literary critic, teacher, and public official. He is a leading authority on Spanish verse, and an outstanding interpreter of Spanish America to the outside world. He has been a high public education official in the Dominican Republic and in Mexico.
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