WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.880 align:middle line:84%
Louise Bogan will read in
this auditorium at 8:30.

00:00:05.880 --> 00:00:11.370 align:middle line:84%
Later in the series, we have Mr.
John Crowe Ransom, Mr. George

00:00:11.370 --> 00:00:12.398 align:middle line:90%
Reavey.

00:00:12.398 --> 00:00:13.815 align:middle line:84%
The dates will be
announced later.

00:00:13.815 --> 00:00:18.890 align:middle line:90%


00:00:18.890 --> 00:00:22.400 align:middle line:84%
Mr. Robert Bly, who will
read for us this evening

00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:26.600 align:middle line:84%
comes to us from his farm
in Madison, Minnesota.

00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.760 align:middle line:84%
He is a graduate of
Harvard University

00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:32.540 align:middle line:90%
and State University of Iowa.

00:00:32.540 --> 00:00:36.020 align:middle line:84%
Mr. Bly is the founder and
editor of the very important

00:00:36.020 --> 00:00:40.610 align:middle line:84%
little magazine, The 60s,
formerly called The 50s.

00:00:40.610 --> 00:00:43.250 align:middle line:84%
Which is furnished
a much needed medium

00:00:43.250 --> 00:00:50.570 align:middle line:84%
for translation of European
and South American poetry.

00:00:50.570 --> 00:00:54.140 align:middle line:84%
Mr. Bly, himself, is a
highly reputed translator

00:00:54.140 --> 00:00:58.010 align:middle line:84%
of Scandinavian
and Spanish poetry.

00:00:58.010 --> 00:01:01.460 align:middle line:84%
His first collection of
his own poetry, Silence

00:01:01.460 --> 00:01:05.030 align:middle line:84%
In The Snowy Field was
published by Wesleyan University

00:01:05.030 --> 00:01:08.630 align:middle line:90%
Press in 1962.

00:01:08.630 --> 00:01:13.130 align:middle line:84%
It shows Mr. Bly's
significant concern

00:01:13.130 --> 00:01:16.700 align:middle line:84%
with solitude and
silence, although he

00:01:16.700 --> 00:01:18.500 align:middle line:90%
is anything but a silent man.

00:01:18.500 --> 00:01:21.410 align:middle line:90%


00:01:21.410 --> 00:01:24.320 align:middle line:84%
As a matter of fact,
he is the co-organizer

00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:28.220 align:middle line:84%
of an articulate organization
called American Writers

00:01:28.220 --> 00:01:31.430 align:middle line:90%
Against the Vietnam War.

00:01:31.430 --> 00:01:35.660 align:middle line:84%
Mr. Bly has published
several major works

00:01:35.660 --> 00:01:42.560 align:middle line:84%
of translations in Norwegian,
Danish, Swedish, and Spanish.

00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:45.170 align:middle line:84%
His next collection
of his own poems

00:01:45.170 --> 00:01:47.720 align:middle line:84%
which will have the
title, 40 Poems Touching

00:01:47.720 --> 00:01:50.885 align:middle line:84%
On Recent American History,
is now in the press.

00:01:50.885 --> 00:01:53.980 align:middle line:90%


00:01:53.980 --> 00:01:57.400 align:middle line:84%
This very sketchy
sketch does not really

00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.550 align:middle line:84%
give you an indication
of the man, especially

00:02:00.550 --> 00:02:05.980 align:middle line:84%
of the one probably most
noticeable feature of the man,

00:02:05.980 --> 00:02:09.400 align:middle line:90%
and that is his absolute charm.

00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:13.240 align:middle line:84%
I shall have to leave that to
you to find out for yourselves.

00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.580 align:middle line:84%
But it gives me a
great deal of pleasure

00:02:15.580 --> 00:02:19.150 align:middle line:84%
to welcome and to present
you, Mr. Robert Bly.

00:02:19.150 --> 00:02:22.500 align:middle line:90%
[APPLAUSE]

00:02:22.500 --> 00:02:27.000 align:middle line:90%