Bennington College History: Literature: 1930s Literature Readings and Lectures

1932

• Dorothy Fisher. "The Creation of a Short Story" (1932-09-14) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule | Attendance and Expense
• Frances Frost. Reading. (1932-09-21) Evening Meetings September - December 1932 | Attendance and Expense
• Arthur Guiterman. Poetry Reading.  (1932-09-29) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule | Attendance and Expense
• C. P. Smith. Reading. (1932-10-13) Evening Meetings September - December 1932 | Attendance and Expense
• Ellenor Cook. "Folk Songs of Europe"(1932-10-17) Evening Meetings September - December 1932 | Attendance and Expense
• Robert Nathan. "Phantasy in Fiction" (1932-10-27) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule | Attendance and Expense
• Helen Hartness Flanders. "The Folk Songs of Vermont Folk Songs" (1932-10-31) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule | Attendance and Expense
• George F. Whicher. "Emily Dickinson" (1932-12-12) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule | Attendance and Expense
• Genevieve Taggard and Rev. Elwood Worcester. "Emily Dickinson" (1932-12-17) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule | Attendance and Expense
• Isabel Paterson. The Literary Critic. (1932-12-21) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule | Attendance and Expense

1933

• Julia Peterkin. "Negroes" (1933-02-24) Attendance and Expense
• Marvin Lowenthal. "Montaigne" (1933-03-07) Attendance and Expense
• Jean Guiton. "Marcel Proust" (1933-03-14) Attendance and Expense
• Dudley Fitts. Poetry reading. (1933-03-29) Attendance and Expense
• Irving Fineman. "Hollywood" (1933-03-30) Attendance and Expense
• Harold Gray "Creative Criticism" (1933-04-24) Attendance and Expense 
• Roberta Swartz. Poetry reading. (co-founder of the Kenyon Review) (1933-05-07) Attendance and Expense
• Andre Morize. "Modernism" (1933-05-08) Attendance and Expense
• James Rorty.  "The Artist Under Capitalism" (1933-05-10) Attendance and Expense
• The Symposium on Modernism in the Arts Symposium on Modernism in the Arts | Attendance and Expense | NYT article 
  • Irving Fineman. "Modernism in Prose" (1933-06-06) 
  • Genevieve Taggard. "Modernism in Poetry" (1933-06-08)
  • Jean Guiton. "Modernism in France" (1933-06-13)
• Robert Frost. Reading. (1933-06-14) Attendance and Expense
• Wilbert Snow. Poetry reading. (1933-06-26) Attendance and Expense
• Play reading "L'Habit Vert" (1933-11-22) Evening Meetings 1933-1934
• Granville Hicks. "Movement of Revolt in American Literature" (1933-12-19) Evening Meetings 1933-1934

1934

• Carl Van Doren. (1934-03-20) Evening Meetings 1933-1934
• Theodore Dreiser.  (1934-04-06) Evening Meetings 1933-1934
•  Andre Morize. "Jules Romains: an Author and a School" (1934-04-30) Evening Meetings 1933-1934
• Dorothy C. Fisher. "Interviewing Literary People" 1934-06-12) Evening Meetings 1933-1934
• Archibald MacLeish. Poetry reading. (1934-06-14) Evening Meetings 1933-1934
• Edmund Wilson. "Jules Michelet" (1934-06-21) Evening Meetings 1933-1934
• Ludwig Lewisohn. "The Creative Life" (1934-09-11) Evening Meetings Sept to Oct 16 1934
• Padraic Colum. Reading and lecture (1934-09-25) Evening Meetings Sept to Oct 16 1934
• George Whicher. "Horace" (1934-11-02) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December
• C. H. Gray "Reading of Genevieve Taggard's poetry" (1934-11-16) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December
• Carl Sandburg " Reading of his own poetry" (1934-11-23) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Letter from Taggart | Letter from Jones 
• Playreading "LeMariage de M. le Trouhadec" by Jules Romains (1934-12-02) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December
• Morris Ernst " "Freedom of Speech and Literary Censorship" (1934-12-10) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Freedom of Speech and the American Tradition-Lecture Abstract |  Liberalism-Lecture Series Listing of Speakers and Topics 
• M. Philippe Soupault "Quinze Ans d'Experience Litteraires" (1934-12-11) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December

1935

• Ernest Sutherland Bates. "Philosophy of Pigeon-Holes with Special Reference to Contemporary Literature" (1935-03-14) 1935 Evening Meetings
• V. F. Calverton. (Victor Francis Calverton, pseudonym of George Goetz, American left-radical writer and literary critic) "The Liberation of American Literature" (1935-03-18) Evening Meetings
• Walter R. Agard. "Greek Drama and Its Religious Background" (1935-03-26) Evening Meetings
• Philip Wheelwright. "Some Philosophical Aspects of Fascism" (1935-04-18) Evening Meetings
• E. E. Cummings. Poetry reading. (1935-04-24) Evening Meetings | E.E. Cummings: A Poet's Life by Susan Cheever
• Zora Neale Hurston. "The Negro in American Life"  (1935-06-06) Press Release | Letter from Zora Neale Hurston | Letter to Zora Neale Hurston | Evening Meetings | Literary Bennington article
• Poetry recital. (1935-06-24) Evening Meetings
• Wallace Fowlie. "French Symbolism and American Imagism" (1935-10-03) Evening Meetings
• Clifton Fadiman. "The Modern Novel" (1935-10-24) Evening Meetings
• W. W. Norton. "Books - Vocation or  Avocation" (1935-11-13) Evening Meetings
• Ralph Marcus. "How the Bible Was Written and Translated" (1935-11-25)  Evening Meetings
• Paul Horgan. "Southwestern Literature" (1935-12-17) Evening Meetings

1936

• Horace Gregory. "Belief and Poetry" (1936-03-19) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December
• Leadbelly and Mary E. Barnicle. " Leadbelly & His Songs" (1936-04-13) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December
• Louise Bogan. Poetry reading. (1936-04-20) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December
• Literature - The Art that Pays Lecture Series (1936-04-22) The Art that Pays lecture series - literature summary | 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December | Memorandum on The Art that Pays series. | Notes on the introduction to The Art that Pay lecture series
• Genevieve Taggard. Poetry reading. (1936-06-08) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December
• William Troy. "Time Conceptions in Modern Literature" (1936-10-08) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December
• Howard Blake. "Reading his poetry and discussing poetry of today (1936-10-15) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December
• Julia Peterkin "Negro Spirituals" (1936-11-12) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December
• Students reading original verse (1936-11-12) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December
• Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Fitzgerald, and James Agee. Readings from their own poems. (1936-11-30) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

1937

• Andre Malraux. "Thinking People and Spain" (1937-03-02) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April
• Leonie Adams. Reading her own poetry. (1937-03-11) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April
• Statements by Wallace Fowlie and Irving Fineman as part of the "Science and Culture" Lecture Series. (1937-03-17) Science and Culture Lecture Series
• Statement by Harold Gray as part of the "Science and Culture" Lecture Series. (1937-03-17) Science and Culture Lecture Series
• Erich Franzen. "The Work of Reading" (1937-03-18) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April
• Wallace Fowlie. "The Medieval, Villon, Poetry of Resignation "La Ballade des Pendus" interpreted by six students" (1937-03-21) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April
• Andree Bruel. "Themes in Contemporary French Novels" (1937-03-25) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April
• Jean Guiton. "French Poetry Reading" (1937-04-01) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April
• Wallace Fowlie. "Racine, Poet of Grace" (1937-04-04) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April
• Wallace Fowlie. "Baudelaire, Poet of Sin" (1937-04-11) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April
• F. C. Flint. "Contemporary English Poetry" (1937-04-22) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April

1938

• Catherine Osgood. "Analysis of Jane Austin's Emma" (1938-03-17) Art Lecture Series see pages 19-31
• John H. Creighton. "Language as an Art Medium." (1938-03) Art Lecture Series see pages 32-40
• Eva Wunderlich. "Art as a Voice of Time . " (1938-03) Art Lecture Series see pages 41-51
• Wallace Fowlie. "Poetry and the Spiritual Problem of Man." (1938-03) Art Lecture Series see pages 99-103
• C. Harold Gray. "The Judgement of Art. (1938-03) Art Lecture Series see pages 104-114
• Frederick Lewis Allen, editor of Harper's Magazine. Commencement speech "In a Time of Apprehension" (1938-06) Speech

• "Bennington College Presents Representative Modern American Poetry Set to Music by Representative Contemporary Composers." (1938-12-04) program

1939

• Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Commencement speaker. (1939-06)
• Henry Simon "Study of Literature in a Progressive College" (1939-09-19) General Meetings 1939-1945
• William Troy. "Myth and the Modern Mind" (1939-12-07) General Meetings 1939-1945
• Leonie Adams. Poetry reading. (1939-12-05) General Meetings 1939-1945

• The Bennington Theatre Studio Presents: The Bridge Crane, Hart; Lauterer, Arch; set design; Hill, Martha, movement composition and direction; Belitt, Ben, speaking director; Miller, Hope, choral director; Reitell, Elizabeth, costume design(1939-12-13) program