Fitzgerald, Robert, 1910-1985

Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) was an American poet, educator, and critic who was best known for his translations of Greek classics.

American poet.

Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985), poet, translator, and teacher.

Robert Fitzgerald was an American poet, educator, and critic best known for his translation of Greek classics.

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.

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