Translators David Grene, Robert Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Wyckoff. Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone. Translators Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald.

He later moved to Hamden, Connecticut, where he died at his home after a long illness. Benedict Fitzgerald (who co-wrote the screenplay for The Passion of the Christ with Mel Gibson), Barnaby Fitzgerald, and Michael Fitzgerald are sons of Robert and Sally. Fitzgerald's wife at the time, Sally Fitzgerald, compiled O'Connor's essays and letters after O'Connor's death. He also served as literary executor to Flannery O'Connor, who was a boarder at his home in Redding, Connecticut, from 1949 to 1951. įitzgerald is widely known as one of the most poetic translators into the English language. From 1984 to 1985 he was appointed 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, but did not serve due to illness. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He succeeded Archibald MacLeish as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard in 1965 and served until his retirement in 1981. Later he was an instructor at Sarah Lawrence and Princeton University, poetry editor of The New Republic. Whittaker Chambers mentions him as a colleague in his 1952 memoir, Witness. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among 'associate editors' at Time in the play, Love's Old Sweet Song. After graduating from Harvard in 1933 he became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune for a year. He entered Harvard in 1929, and in 1931 a number of his poems were published in Poetry magazine. He also composed several books of his own poetry.įitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut.

He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. 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'.

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