In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a speaker. Invited to deliver the prestigious Norton Lectures, he had departed Europe just days after the outbreak of war, leaving behind not only a growing political maelstrom but also his life in France, where his wife, eldest daughter, and mother all had died in the previous year. To commemorate the centenary of Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry and its distinguished lecture series, Harvard University Press presents five landmark titles from the series, each reissued with a new foreword by a distinguished contemporary voice.