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Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, literary critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students".
Fitzgerald is the author of the poetry collections Spring Shade: Poems, 1931–1970 and A Wreath for the Sea (1943), among others. In poems such as “Song after Campion,” Fitzgerald’s strong classical influence mixes with the English Renaissance tradition to create pristine lyrical poetry.
Apr 25, 2024 · Robert Fitzgerald (born October 12, 1910, Geneva, New York, U.S.—died January 16, 1985, Hamden, Connecticut) was an American poet, educator, and critic who was best known for his translations of Greek classics.
Feb 22, 2022 · Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. ...more.
Jan 17, 1985 · Robert Fitzgerald, Emeritus Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, whose translations of the Greek classics became standard works for a generation of scholars and...
Fitzgerald served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1968 to 1985. From 1984 to 1985 Fitzgerald was consultant in poetry (now, poet laureate) to the Library of Congress. Fitzgerald died on January 16, 1985, in Hamden, Connecticut.
Jan 8, 2001 · Fitzgerald: That's right. Interview: Robert Fitzgerald - Edwin Honig conducted the following interview with Robert Fitzgerald, which originally appeared in The Poet's Other Voice (University of Massachusetts Press, 1985).
Robert Fitzgerald. Biographical Introduction. The poet was a journalist as well as a professor of English who is celebrated for his eminent translations of both Greek and Latin classics. Though born in Geneva, New York, Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Ilinois.
Robert Fitzgerald, The Art of Translation No. 1. Interviewed by Andrew McCord & Edwin Frank. Issue 94, Winter 1984. Photograph by K. Kelly Wise. Robert Fitzgerald met us in his office in Harvard’s Pusey Library one morning in August 1983. The day was muggy; Fitzgerald was wearing a blue seersucker suit and a sport shirt.
Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) was born in Springfield, Illinois. He was the author of four poetry collections. Fitzgerald was the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University from 1965-1981, and served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1968-1995.
