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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 · Complete and Unabridged. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.0...
Apr 25, 2020 · The Iliad & The Odyssey. Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald’s prizewinning translation of Homer’s battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared.
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 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...
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