Robert Bly (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Robert Elwood Bly was born in Madison, Minnesota, on December 23, 1926, to Jacob Thomas Bly and Alice Aws Bly, second-generation Norwegian immigrants. He grew up on his family's farm and, after completing high school in Madison, enlisted in the Navy, serving in a special radar program until the end of the war. According to Bly, one of the few positive memories he had of his experience in the Navy was the purchase of his first books of poetry, especially Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems: Poems of the Midwest (1946) and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass...
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