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Symposium On Rob By JOHN VAUGHAN Entertainment Editor Walter Edgar has called Robert Penn Warren the most significant living Southern writer. Tom Connelly says Warren is the greatest living American writer. No matter what the wording, both men agree that Warren is a' fascinating man to learn about. In fact, Edgar, the director of Southern Studies at USC, thought Warren so fascinating that 18 months ago, he came up with the idea of bringing Warren to campus for a symposium. The idea has blossomed quite a bit from that early inkling, i l i i i i ii A .. : :11 u? anu luuay anu tomorrow, ine vjamuren auuuui iuih win uc the site of "Robert Penn Warren: a public program." The two-day program will include various discussions of JB 6(1 pm BK^feaBBB Wfe ^ UK-;in gfe^ jg Kllilffr^^PI in tradition. Above, and singing rin^masti I | Staff Photos by , and CHR I WfSF -jvraM f pBflpr t *- D, W/. icri t cuu w (tncu uch Warren's variety of achievements. On the agenda are ex- I cerpts from an opera, a poetry reading, a video-taped in- \ terview with the master writer, and six of the most esteemed men in the nation in their areas of expertise. i "We were looking for the best people in their respective ] fields," said Edgar, explaining the selection of the par- ? ticipants. "And we wanted to select some of the USC faculty." ] Southern Studies succeeded on both counts. In attendance i this weekend will be Harold Bloom, Carlisle Floyd, Madison i Jones, Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and USC professors Thomas L. i Connelly and James Dickey. 1 Bloom is a Yale University professor, and in Edgar's woras, tne premier voice in poeiry crmcism in me unueu , States." Bloom received his Ph.D. from Yale and has ture Fric ndMPCOCk' PNT^D >wOnEa K?gJl Bp mSgUm fclBcvIH^-mS^B: ''k ^ ?Br ^MSff Htft ^MBt S^Kdl ^-sll^l" -. ~ I8P?S8F^8 into Columbia about 10 a.m Thursday morning, I The very phrase draws an excited nostalgia [?nderment in every little one. The train canu d Wednesday night to capture some of the essei Duane Thome "elowns" around, little Nathan 1 er Kit Haskett salutes his appreciative audience. mmmSBM . v.x<^ v?^^^b-.v_ ;ins This Weekend lonorarv decrees from Boston University and Yeshiva University. He will discuss Warren as a poet. Bloom is the author of numerous publications and writings md numbers among his awards the prestigious John Addison Porter Prize and the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry society of America. Floyd, the Anderson professor of music at the University of Houston, will discuss how he adapted Warren's most famous novel, All the King's Men, into the opera Willie Stark, which was recentlv commissioned bv the John F. Kennedv Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Floyd has composed three full-length operas. Jones is a professor of English and writer-in-residence at Auburn University. He has authored The Innocent (1975), See SIX, 6 1 a i t I BkBl"~-US n :&Br :? j^B - i || H - -'^E'' ;1;j it .4&r^fl9R^Em^^E^BE9SIHfira&i?te&!&c&< flu ~ tr^r^ :zr s=rj?r"~.- - ; _a_ir::_L??rr-Lrr i T . 1 -.-"1 _2 '-?Lz'i -__1:._ -' f Hy W' M [over three dozen cars \ in every big boy and HH M !M ' e from Augusta, where W JsBW " nee of this event so rich )uffie enjoys the show, <v" ^-v^rv:- H^ag?i? '! '^C.-j^# ^ / *