Bagg, Robert

Robert Bagg (1937- ) was born in Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Amherst College in 1957, received an M.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1961 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 1965. He taught English at the University of Washington in Seattle, Smith College, the University of Texas, and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, from which he retired in 1996. He served as chair of the UMass Amherst English Department for a portion of his tenure at that institution. Bagg has received several prizes and fellowships during his writing career, including the Glascock Poetry Prize (1957), Simpson Fellowship (1957-1958), Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and letters (1958-1959), Ingram-Merrill Fellowship (1961), and Guggenheim Fellowship (1979). His numerous publications include collections of poetry, Greek to English translations of Euripides and Sophocles, and plays. In 2007, he received a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship to write a biography of Richard Wilbur.

Bagg has five children from his first marriage, to Sarah "Sally" Robinson: Theodore, Christopher, Jonathan, Melissa, and Robert Hazzard. His second wife, Mary, has collaborated with him on several publications.

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