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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". [1] He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin.
Robert Fitzgerald was a poet, translator, and educator who served as poet laureate of the United States and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He is best known for his verse translations of Homer's epics and other classical works, which won him the Bollingen Award and critical acclaim.
Apr 25, 2024 · Robert Fitzgerald was an American poet, educator, and critic who was best known for his translations of Greek classics. Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and attended Harvard University, from which he received a B.A. in 1933. He worked as a journalist at the New York Herald Tribune.
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Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) was a lyric poet and a renowned translator of Homer, Virgil, and Sophocles. He taught English at several universities and served as poet laureate of the Library of Congress.
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Since it was first published, 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...
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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 students, died...
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.
