Swanson, Roy Arthur

Roy Arthur Swanson ( born Roy Arthur Swanson ; born April 7, 1925 , St. Paul ) is an American philologist and translator.

In 1944-1946 He served in the US Armed Forces, then studied at the University of Minnesota (Bachelor, 1948; Master of Arts, 1951), while teaching at the school. In 1954 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois .

He taught at Indiana University (1954-1957), then at the University of Minnesota (1957-1965), since 1963 a professor, and since 1964 the head of the department of comparative literature. In 1965-1967 Professor of English Literature at McAlester College in St. Paul. Then in 1967-1996. Professor of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee , he headed the departments of classical philology (1967-1970 and 1986-1989) and comparative literature (1970-1973 and 1976-1983), and simultaneously since 1982 he was the coordinator of the Scandinavian research program.

He released a Latin translation of the complete collection of poems by Catullus ( Eng. Odi et amo: The Complete Poetry of Catullus ; 1959) and “Love Songs from Carmina Burana ” ( Eng. The Love Songs of the Carmina Burana ; 1987, co-authored with E. D Blodgett ), a translation from the ancient Greek "Aude" by Pindar (1974). He published the book “The Heart of the Mind: Introductory Essays on Humanitarian Knowledge in the Modern World” Heart of Reason: Introductory Essays in Modern-World Humanities ; 1963). As a Scandinavian was primarily involved in the work of Per Lagerkvist , compiled, translated from Swedish and provided a preface to a collection of his early works ( English Pär Lagerkvist: Five Early Works ; 1989) and articles on literature and art (1991, with Everett Ellestad). In recent years, he published the book Blue Border ( English Blue Margin ; 2008), which combines a collection of poems and two detailed articles on poetics, and the novel Rain and Darkness ( English Rain and Darkness ; 2011).