Sawyer Seminar at the University of Chicago, 2011-2012 Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Transformation (Note: Audio recordings of 1 to 1 1/2 hours can take from seconds to several minutes to load. While lectures are fully audible, the quality of follow-up discussions is variable. You can either listen to audio recordings from the page that opens up when you click “listen here,” or (once that page is loaded) pause the recording and download the mp3 recording to your computer by using “save this page as” in your browser menu.)
POETRY READING AND DISCUSSION, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
“1948: Possibilities for Poetry”
Chair: Deborah Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago Readings of English, French, German, and Polish poetry by: Rosanna Warren, Regents Park Visiting Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
David Wellbery, Professor, Germanic Studies, Comparative Literatures, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Adam Zagajewski, Visiting Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Poets: René Char, Eugenio Montale, Geoffrey Hill, Czeslaw Milosz, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Gottfried Benn, Bertolt Brecht listen here
1948 “L’Avant-Monde Argument” Rene Char 1948 Botta-e-risposta-I-Eugenio-Montale 1968 “September Song” Geoffrey Hill 1945, 1951 “Farewell” & “Mittelbergheim” Czeslaw Milosz 1948, 1955 “Survivor,” “Pigtail,” In the Middle of Life” Tadeusz Rozewicz 1949 “Aus Allem etwas Machen” Bertolt Brecht 1948 “Statische Gedichte” Gottfried Benn