Fitzgerald, Robert, 1910-1985
Variant namesRobert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) was an American poet, educator, and critic who was best known for his translations of Greek classics.
From the description of Homer's "Odyssey" in translation : manuscripts, 1953-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82743704
From the guide to the Robert Fitzgerald papers for Homer's "Odyssey" in translation, 1953-1960., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)
American poet.
From the description of Midsummer : place not specified : autograph manuscript of the poem signed, 1931 Dec. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270538354
Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985), poet, translator, and teacher.
From the description of Robert Fitzgerald papers, 1892-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702180000
Robert Fitzgerald was an American poet, educator, and critic best known for his translation of Greek classics.
From the description of Poems, 1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83717634
From the guide to the Robert Fitzgerald poems, 1965., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)
Robert Fitzgerald, distinguished poet, professor and classical scholar, taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University, University of Notre Dame, University of Washington, Mount Holyoke College and Harvard University.
From the description of Correspondence, 1984 May 14-June 12. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 20675791
Robert Fitzgerald was a poet, translator, and teacher. His publications include collections of poetry, translations of classical and modern literature, critical essays, and edited works. Works include the poetry collections Poems (1935) and Spring Shade (1971), editions of the work of James Agee (1968), and the posthumous Enlarging the Change (1985), essays based on the Princeton seminars on literary criticism. Fitzgerald may be best known for his translations of Homer's Odyssey (1961) and Iliad (1974), and Virgil's Aeneid (1984).
Summary information on Robert Fitzgerald is available in the standard print and online biographical resources.
The following chronology provides dates for key events and
publications:
1910 October 12, born in Geneva, New York to Robert Emmet Fitzgerald
and Anne Stuart Fitzgerald
1913 March 26 death of Anne Stuart Fitzgerald
1921-1924 attends Saint Agnes Catholic School, Springfield, Illinois
1926-1928 attends Springfield High School, Springfield, Illinois
1929 attends The Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut
1929 January 27 death of Robert Emmet Fitzgerald
1929-1931 attends Harvard University
1932 attends Trinity College, Cambridge
1933 graduates from Harvard University
1933-1935 reporter for New York Herald Tribune
1935 December 24 marries Eleanor Green
1935 publication of Poems
1936 publication of Alcestis of Euripides (trans.)
1936-1943 and 1946-1949 writes for Time magazine
1939 publication of Antigone (trans.)
1941 publication of Oedipus at Colonus (trans.)
1943 publication of A Wreath for the Sea
1943-1946 serves in U.S. Naval Reserve
1946 June 12 divorces Eleanor Green
1946-1952 instructor, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
1947 April 20 marries Sarah Morgan
1949 publication of Oedipus Rex (trans.)
1949-1951 fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1952 fellow, School of Letters, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana
1953 moves to Italy
1956 publication of In the Rose of Time
1957 visiting professor, Notre Dame, Sound Bend, Indiana
1960 publication of Chronique (trans.)
1961 publication of The Odyssey (trans.)
1961 visiting professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1961 awarded first Bollinger Prize for translation
1964 visiting professor, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley,
Massachusetts
1965-1981 Boyston Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
1966 publication of Birds (trans.)
1968 publication of The Collected Poems of James Agee (ed.) and The Collected Short Prose of James Agee (ed.)
1969 publication of Mystery and Manners (ed.)
1972 publication of Spring Shade ; separates from Sarah Morgan
1974 publication of The Iliad (trans.)
1982 divorces Sarah Morgan; marries Penelope Laurans
1983 publication of The Aeneid (trans.)
1985 January 16, dies in Hamden, Connecticut
1985 publication of Enlarging the Change: The Princeton Seminars in Literary Criticism, 1949-1951
1993 publication of The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs and Selected Writings, ed. by Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald
From the guide to the Robert Fitzgerald papers, 1892-1986, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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associatedWith | Agee, James, 1909-1955 |
associatedWith | Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. |
associatedWith | Berryman, John, 1914-1972. |
associatedWith | Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979. |
associatedWith | Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965. |
associatedWith | Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970. |
associatedWith | Bollingen Foundation. |
associatedWith | Brown, Ashley, 1923- |
associatedWith | Burnshaw, Stanley, 1906- |
correspondedWith | Cairnie, Gordon. |
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Birth 1910-10-12
Death 1985-01-16
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