Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (12 October 1910–16 January 1985) was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students."^[1] Robert Fitzgerald may refer to: Robert D. Fitzgerald (1830-1892), Irish-Australian botanist and surveyor R. D. Fitzgerald (1902–1987), Australian poet and grandson of the above botanist/surveyor Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), American classicist and translator of ancient Greek and Latin William Robert Fitzgerald Collis (1900–1975), Irish Red... is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. In addition, he also composed several books of his own poetry. For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...

Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois and, when he was 18, attended The Choate School for a year before entering Harvard University in 1929. In 1931, while he was still as colllege student, a group of his poems were published in Poetry magazine. After his college graduation in 1933, he became a reporter for The New York Herald Tribune for a year. Later he worked several years for TIME magazine.^[1] : Home of President Abraham Lincoln United States Illinois Sangamon 60. ... Harvard redirects here. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Poetry, published in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. ... The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper created in 1922 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald. ... “TIME” redirects here. ...

In World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in Guam and Pearl Harbor. Later he was an instructor at Sarah Lawrence and Princeton University, poetry editor of The New Republic. He succeeded Archibald MacLeish as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus at Harvard in 1965 and served until his retirement in 1981.^[1] Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Sarah Lawrence is: Sarah Lawrence College This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. ...

He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. From 1984 to 1985 he was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, the United States' equivalent of a national poet laureate. In 1984 Fitzgerald received a L.H.D. from Bates College. The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Academy of American Poets is the largest organization in the United States dedicated to the art of poetry. ... Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894. ... The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35,000 a year. ... Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ...

Fitzgerald is widely known as one of the most poetic translators into the English language. He also served as literary executor to Flannery O'Connor, who was a boarder at his home in Redding, Connecticut, from 1949 to 1951. ^[2] Fitzgerald's wife at the time, Sally Fitzgerald, compiled O'Connor's essays and letters after O'Connor's death. Mary Flannery OConnor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. ... Redding is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Fitzgerald was married three times. He later moved to Hamden, Connecticut, where he died at home after a long illness. ^[1] Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. ...

Works

Greek and Latin translations

• Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (1961)
• Homer's The Odyssey (1961)
• Homer's The Iliad (1974)
• Virgil's The Aeneid (1983)

With Dudley Fitts: Dudley Fitts (April 28, 1903-July 10, 1968) was an American teacher, critic, poet, and translator of classical Greek works into contemporary English. ...

• Euripedes' Alcestis (1935)
• Sophocles' Antigone (1938)
• Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (1948).

Other translations

• Paul Valery's Three Verse Plays (1960)
• St. John Perse's Chronique and Birds (1965)

Poems

• Poems (1935)
• A Wreath for the Sea
• In the Rose of Time
• Spring Shade

Other

• Spring Shade (poetry) 1971

• Editor, The Collected Poems of James Agee (1968)
• Editor, The Collected Short Prose of James Agee (1969)

External links

• Interview from The Poet's Other Voice
• Robert Fitzgerald biography and example of poetry. Part of a series of poets.

References

Homer, Trans. Robert Fitzgerald (1961). The Odyssey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...