Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald in 1943, by Walker Evans
Robert Fitzgerald in 1943, by Walker Evans
BornRobert Stuart Fitzgerald
(1910-10-12)October 12, 1910
DiedJanuary 16, 1985(1985-01-16) (aged 74)
Hamden, Connecticut

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. He also composed several books of his own poetry.

  1. ^ Mitgang, Herbert (January 17, 1985). Robert Fitzgerald, 74, poet who translated the classics. New York Times

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