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Robert Fitzgerald

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Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students."Mitgang, Herbert (January 17, 1985). [1]

81 relations: Aeneid, Agee (film), Antigone (Sophocles play), Art and Scholasticism, Benedict Fitzgerald, Bollingen Foundation, Bollingen Prize, Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, Calvin Fixx, Carthage, Choate Rosemary Hall, Chris Agee, Claire Cook, David Ferry (poet), Dudley Fitts, English translations of Homer, Erulus, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Faber Book of Modern American Verse, Flannery O'Connor, Golden Rose Award, Helen Chasin, Homer, Homeric Greek, Iliad, Irish House of Commons, James Agee, John Berryman, Judith Baumel, Karl Kirchwey, Lacrimae rerum, Laertes, Lavinia, List of Americans of Irish descent, List of Choate Rosemary Hall alumni, List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1952, List of Irish Americans, List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature, List of members of the League of American Writers, List of people from Redding, Connecticut, List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut, List of people from Springfield, Illinois, List of poets, List of translators into English, List of winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Louis Kronenberger, Lusus Troiae, Madison U. Sowell, Megan Marshall, National Register of Historic Places listings in Marquette County, Wisconsin, ..., New Directions Publishing, Nicholas Callaway, October 12, Odyssey, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus Rex, Oxford poetry anthologies, Redding, Connecticut, Richard Smoley, Robert Cantwell, Robert Fitzgerald (disambiguation), Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award, Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, Saint-John Perse, Serjeant-at-law (Ireland), Shelley Memorial Award, Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres, Springfield High School (Illinois), The Harvard Advocate, Three Chinese Poets, Tracy Kidder, United States Poet Laureate, Vincent Persichetti, Whittaker Chambers, 1910 in the United States, 1943 in poetry, 1956 in poetry, 1957 in poetry, 1971 in poetry, 1984 in poetry, 1985 in poetry. Expand index (31 more) »

Aeneid

The Aeneid (Aeneis) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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Agee (film)

Agee is a 1980 American documentary film directed by Ross Spears, about the writer James Agee.

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Antigone (Sophocles play)

Antigone (Ἀντιγόνη) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.

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Art and Scholasticism

Art and Scholasticism (Art et scolastique) is a 1920 book by the philosopher Jacques Maritain, his major contribution to aesthetics.

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Benedict Fitzgerald

Benedict Fitzgerald (born 1949) is an American screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay for The Passion of the Christ with Mel Gibson.

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Bollingen Foundation

The Bollingen Foundation was an educational foundation set up along the lines of a university press in 1945.

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Bollingen Prize

The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.

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Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory

The Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory is an endowed chair at Harvard University.

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Calvin Fixx

Calvin Fixx, born Calvin Henry Fix (August 1, 1906 – March 3, 1950), was a 20th-century American journalist and editor, lifelong friend of Robert Cantwell and friend of Whittaker Chambers, both fellow editors at TIME magazine.

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Carthage

Carthage (from Carthago; Punic:, Qart-ḥadašt, "New City") was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now the Tunis Governorate in Tunisia.

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Choate Rosemary Hall

Choate Rosemary Hall (often known as Choate) is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational, boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut.

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Chris Agee

Christopher Robert Agee (born 18 January 1956, in San Francisco) is a poet, essayist and editor living in Ireland.

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Claire Cook

Claire Cook (born February 14, 1955) is an American writer and public speaker.

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David Ferry (poet)

David Ferry is an American poet, translator, and educator.

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Dudley Fitts

Dudley Fitts (April 28, 1903 – July 10, 1968) was an American teacher, critic, poet, and translator.

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English translations of Homer

This is a list of English translations of the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey.

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Erulus

In Vergil's Aeneid, Erulus is a king of Praeneste.

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Everything That Rises Must Converge

Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during the final decade of her life.

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Faber Book of Modern American Verse

The Faber Book of Modern American Verse was a poetry anthology edited by W. H. Auden, and published in London in 1956 by Faber and Faber.

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Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.

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Golden Rose Award

The Golden Rose Award, one of America’s oldest literary prizes, was inaugurated in 1919.

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Helen Chasin

Helen S. Chasin (1938–2015) was an American poet.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Homeric Greek

Homeric Greek is the form of the Greek language that was used by Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey and in the Homeric Hymns.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Ἰλιάς, in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.

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Irish House of Commons

The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800.

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James Agee

James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.

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John Berryman

John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma.

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Judith Baumel

Judith Baumel (b. October 9, 1956 Bronx, New York) is an American poet.

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Karl Kirchwey

Karl Kirchwey (born February 25, 1956) is an award–winning American poet who has lived in both Europe and the United States and whose work is strongly influenced by the Greek and Roman past.

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Lacrimae rerum

Lacrimae rerum is the Latin phrase for "tears of things." It derives from Book I, line 462 of the Aeneid (c. 29–19 BC), by Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 BC).

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Laertes

In Greek mythology, Laertes (Λαέρτης, Laértēs), also spelled Laërtes, was the son of Arcesius and Chalcomedusa.

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Lavinia

In Roman mythology, Lavinia (Lāuīnĭa) is the daughter of Latinus and Amata and the last wife of Aeneas.

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List of Americans of Irish descent

This is a list of Americans of Irish descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American-born descendants.

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List of Choate Rosemary Hall alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Choate Rosemary Hall, also known informally simply as Choate.

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1952

The following is a list of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1952.

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List of Irish Americans

This is a list of notable Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American-born descendants.

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List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature

This List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature shows the members of one of the three departments of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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List of members of the League of American Writers

The League of American Writers was a so-called "mass organization" initiated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935 and terminated in January 1943.

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List of people from Redding, Connecticut

People associated with Redding, Connecticut, listed in the area they are best known.

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List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut

This is a list of notable people, past and present who have lived in Ridgefield, Connecticut or are closely associated with the town, listed by area in which they are best known.

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List of people from Springfield, Illinois

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Springfield, Illinois.

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List of poets

This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.

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List of translators into English

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List of winners of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a $1,000 award by the Academy of American Poets, for a published translation of poetry from any language into English.

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Louis Kronenberger

Louis Kronenberger (December 9, 1904April 30, 1980) was an American literary critic (longest with Time, (1938-1961), novelist, and biographer who wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century.

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Lusus Troiae

The Lusus Troiae, also as Ludus Troiae and ludicrum Troiae ("Troy Game" or "Game of Troy") was an equestrian event held in ancient Rome.

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Madison U. Sowell

Madison U. Sowell was appointed at in June 2018.

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Megan Marshall

Megan Marshall (born June 8, 1954) is an American scholar, writer, and biographer.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Marquette County, Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marquette County, Wisconsin.

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New Directions Publishing

New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City.

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Nicholas Callaway

Nicholas Callaway is an app producer, book publisher, television producer, writer and photographer.

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October 12

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Oedipus at Colonus

Oedipus at Colonus (also Oedipus Coloneus, Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnōi) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles.

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Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος IPA), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC.

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Oxford poetry anthologies

The Oxford University Press published a long series of poetry anthologies, dealing in particular with British poetry but not restricted to it, after the success of the Oxford Book of English Verse (1900).

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Redding, Connecticut

Redding is an affluent town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Richard Smoley

Richard Smoley is an author and philosopher focusing on the world’s mystical and esoteric teachings, particularly those of Western civilization.

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Robert Cantwell

Robert Emmett Cantwell (January 31, 1908 – December 8, 1978), known as Robert Cantwell, was a novelist and critic.

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Robert Fitzgerald (disambiguation)

Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985) was an American classicist and translator of ancient Greek and Latin Robert Fitzgerald may also refer to.

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Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award

The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is awarded to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport is located in the southwestern part of the state of Connecticut, and its boundaries are the same as that of Fairfield County, Connecticut.

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Saint-John Perse

Saint-John Perse (also Saint-Leger Leger,; pseudonyms of Alexis Leger) (31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975) was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the United States until 1967.

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Serjeant-at-law (Ireland)

This is a list (presently incomplete) of lawyers who held the rank of serjeant-at-law at the Irish Bar.

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Shelley Memorial Award

The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The 500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics programme.

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Springfield High School (Illinois)

Springfield High School (SHS) is a public secondary school located in Springfield, Illinois, United States.

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The Harvard Advocate

The Harvard Advocate, the art and literary magazine of Harvard College, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the United States.

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Three Chinese Poets

Three Chinese Poets is a book of poetry by the titular poets Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu translated into English by Vikram Seth.

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Tracy Kidder

John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books.

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United States Poet Laureate

The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States.

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Vincent Persichetti

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist.

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Whittaker Chambers

Jay Vivian Chambers (April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961), known as Whittaker Chambers, was an American editor who denounced his Communist spying and became respected by the American Conservative movement during the 1950s.

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1910 in the United States

Events from the year 1910 in the United States.

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1943 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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1956 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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1957 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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1971 in poetry

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1984 in poetry

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1985 in poetry

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitzgerald

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