Read to Give Fourth Eliot Norton Lecture

Sir Herbert Read, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, will give his first spring lecture, "The Idea as Human," tonight at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall. His talks will continue to be on the general theme of "Art and the Development of Human Consciousness."

The British poet and critic is known for his political philosophy as well as his poetry and art criticism. An author of several books and many interpretive works on art and poetry, he has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Liverpool, and London. He was also president of the Society for Education in Art for a number of years.

The topics and dates of his remaining lectures are "The Illusion of the Real," Feb. 25; "The Frontiers of the Self," March 4; and "The Constructive Image," March 11.

The past three Norton lectures have been Thorton Wilder, Aaron Copeland, and E. E. Cummings.