Swanson, Roy Arthur 1925-

PERSONAL:

Born April 7, 1925, in St. Paul, MN; son of Roy Benjamin (a mechanic) and Gertrude Swanson; married Vivian Vitous, March 30, 1946; children: Lynn, Robin, Dyack, Dana. Ethnicity: "Swedish descent." Education: University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, B.A., 1948, B.S., 1949, M.A., 1951; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D., 1954.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Mequon, WI. Office—University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413; fax: 262-242-4603. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Elementary school principal in St. Paul, MN, 1949-51; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, instructor in education, 1952-53; Indiana University—Bloomington, Bloomington, instructor in classics, 1954-57; University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, Minneapolis, assistant professor, 1957-61, associate professor, 1961-64, professor of classics and humanities and chair of department of comparative literature, 1964-65; Macalester College, St. Paul, professor of English, 1965-67; University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, Milwaukee, professor of comparative literature and classics, 1967—. Military service: U.S. Army, 103rd Infantry Division, 1943-46; received Bronze Star.

MEMBER:

American Philological Association, Modern Language Association of America, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fulbright scholarship for Rome, Italy, 1953; Lilly Foundation grant for Sweden, 1965-66.

WRITINGS:

(Translator and author of introduction) Odi et amo: The Complete Poetry of Catullus, Liberal Arts Press (New York, NY), 1959.

Heart of Reason: Introductory Essays in Modern-World Humanities, Denison (Minneapolis, MN), 1963.

(Translator and author of preface, introduction, and notes) Pindar's Odes, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1974.

(Translator, with E.D. Blodgett) The Love Songs of the Carmina Burana, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1987.

Pär Lagerkvist: Five Early Works, Edwin Mellen (Lewiston, NY), 1989.

(Translator, with Everett M. Ellestad) Pär Lagerkvist, Literary Art and Pictorial Art: On the Decadence of Modern Literature, on the Vitality of Modern Art, Rainbow Press (Cork, Ireland), 1991.

Contributor to Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature. Contributor to classical and other scholarly journals. Editor, Minnesota Review, 1963-67, and Classical Journal, 1968-73.

SIDELIGHTS:

Roy Arthur Swanson once told CA: "My guide in my attention to literature is Martin Heidegger."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Schroeder, Chad Matthew, editor, Cygnifiliana: Essays in Classics, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy Presented to Professor Roy Arthur Swanson on the Occasion of His Seventy-fifth Birthday, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 2005.