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Blashfield Address Speakers | |||
| Name | For | Year | |
| Rocco Landesman | "The Play's The Thing" | 2011 | |
| Calvin Trillin | "Deadline Poet" | 2010 | |
| Louise Gluck | "American Originality" | 2009 | |
| Wallace Shawn | "The Unobtrusives" | 2008 | |
| Romulus Linney | "The Language of Illiteracy" | 2007 | |
| Edward Albee | "Why We Are Here" | 2006 | |
| Roger Wilkins | "The Language of Liberty" | 2005 | |
| Linda Nochlin | "Speaking About Pictures" | 2004 | |
| Robert Craft | "Music is the best means we have of digesting time" | 2003 | |
| Edna O'Brien | "The Danger Zone in Literature" | 2002 | |
| Tim Page | "Music in an Age of Overstimulation" | 2001 | |
| Harold Bloom | "The Way We Read Now" | 2000 | |
| Wole Soyinka | "Liberty Hall and the House of Correction" | 1999 | |
| Margaret Drabble | "Living in the Pastoral" | 1997 | |
| Donald Keene | "The Quest for Japan" | 1996 | |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | "Matthew Arnold and Multiculturalism" | 1995 | |
| Alfred Kazin | "All Critics Are Mortal" | 1994 | |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | "Grey Truth" | 1992 | |
| Ada Louise Huxtable | "Inventing Reality: Variations on a Theme" | 1991 | |
| Nadine Gordimer | "References: The Codes of Culture" | 1989 | |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | "The United States and Latin America: The Difficult Friendship" | 1988 | |
| Jacques Barzun | "A Little Matter of Sense" | 1987 | |
| George F. Kennan | "History and Literature" | 1986 | |
| Robertson Davies | "But Why Do You Call It Canadian" | 1985 | |
| Octavio Paz | "The Indiscrete Mirror" | 1984 | |
| John Rewald | "The Advantage of Writing in English" | 1981 | |
| John Updike | "Hawthorne's Religious Language" | 1979 | |
| Henry Steele Commager | "Recreating the Community of Culture" | 1976 | |
| Stephen Spender | "Are We Decadent?" | 1975 | |
| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | "Language and Politics" | 1974 | |
| Victoria Ocampo | "The Nights of Ithaca" | 1973 | |
| Iris Murdoch | "Salvation by Words" | 1972 | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | "The Happiest Day in the Life of My Father" | 1971 | |
| Muriel Spark | "The Desegregation of Art" | 1970 | |
| Richard Hughes | "Fiction as Truth" | 1969 | |
| Kenneth Burke | "I Just Don't Know: Thoughts on the Problem of Style" | 1968 | |
| Maurice Bowra (Sir) | "Useless Knowledge" | 1967 | |
| Jacob Bronowski | "The Reach of Imagination" | 1966 | |
| Julian Parks Boyd | "Thomas Jefferson and the Republic of Letters" | 1965 | |
| Kenneth Clark (Sir) | "Popular Art" | 1964 | |
| Loren Eiseley | "The Divine Animal" | 1963 | |
| Aldous Huxley | "Utopias, Positive and Negative" | 1962 | |
| Robert Graves | "The Word B*acaraka" | 1961 | |
| Virgil Thomson | "Music Now" | 1960 | |
| Meyer Schapiro | "On The Humanity of Abstract Painting" | 1959 | |
| A. Whitney Griswold | "Further Obsequies for the Grammarian" | 1958 | |
| Salvador De Madariaga | "Meditation on Leonardo's St. Anne" | 1957 | |
| Joseph Wood Krutch | "Geometry & Morals" | 1956 | |
| E.N. Van Kleffens | "The Spoken Word" | 1955 | |
| Robert E. Sherwood | "Benjamin Franklin's Country" | 1954 | |
| Elizabeth Bowen | "Subject and the Time" | 1953 | |
| Aaron Copland | "Creativity in America" | 1952 | |
| Mark Van Doren | "The Artist & the Changing World" | 1951 | |
| Robert Frost | "How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King" | 1950 | |
| E.M. Forster | "Art for Art's Sake" | 1949 | |
| Thornton Wilder | "A Time of Troubles" | 1948 | |
| Helen Keller | "Power of the Spoken Word | 1947 | |
| J. William Fulbright | "Our Foreign Policy" | 1946 | |
| Walter Lippmann | "American Destiny" | 1945 | |
| Archibald MacLeish | "The Power of the Spoken Word" | 1944 | |
| Van Wyck Brooks | "Thomas Jefferson, Man of Letters" | 1943 | |
| Lewis Mumford | "The Salvation of Letters" | 1942 | |
| Stephen Vincent Benet | "The Power of the Written Word" | 1940 | |
| Hamlin Garland | "Literary Fashions Old and New" | 1938 | |
| Owen Wister | "William Dean Howells" | 1937 | |
| William Lyon Phelps | "Two American Novels" | 1936 | |
| Agnes Repplier | "Horace" | 1935 | |
| William Lyon Phelps | "Five American Novels" | 1934 | |
| Chauncey Brewster Tinker | "Stedman as a Poet" | 1933 | |
| Irving Babbitt | "The Problem of Style in a Democracy" | 1932 | |
| John Huston Finley | "Virgil's Two Thousand Years" | 1930 | |
| George Pierce Baker | "Speech in Drama" | 1929 | |
| Wilbur L. Cross | "The Modern English Novel | 1928 | |
| Robert Underwood Johnson | "The Glory of Words" | 1925 | |
| William Crary Brownell | "Style" | 1923 | |
| Henry Van Dyke | "The Fringe of Words" | 1922 | |
| Paul Shorey | "The American Language" | 1920 | |
| Bliss Perry | "The Academy & the Language" | 1919 | |
| Brander Matthews | "The English Language & the American Academy" | 1918 | |
| William Crary Brownell | "The Academy & the Language" | 1917 | |
| Paul Elmer More | "English and Englistic" | 1917 | |
| William Milligan Sloane | "The American Academy & the English Language" | 1917 | |
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