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Up for sale a RARE! "American Poet" Robert Fitzgerald Hand Written Note on Harvard Letterhead Dated 1973.
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Robert
Stuart Fitzgerald (/fɪtsˈdʒɛrəld/; 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a
generation of scholars and students".[1] He was best known as a translator also composed several books of his own poetry. Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and
graduated from The Choate School (now
Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut.
He entered Harvard in 1929, and
in 1931 a number of his poems were published in Poetry magazine. After graduating from Harvard in 1933 he
became a reporter for The New York Herald
Tribune for a year. Later he worked several years for TIME magazine. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among "associate
editors" at Time in the play, Love's Old Sweet
Song.[2][1] Whittaker Chambers mentions
him as a colleague in his 1952 memoir, Witness. In World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in Guam and Pearl Harbor. Later he was an instructor at Sarah Lawrence and Princeton University,
poetry editor of The New Republic. He
succeeded Archibald MacLeish as Boylston Professor of
Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard in 1965 and served until his retirement in
1981. He was a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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. In 1984 Fitzgerald received a
L.H.D. from Bates College. Fitzgerald
is widely known as one of the most poetic translators into the English
language. He also served as literary executor to Flannery O'Connor, who was
a boarder at his home in Redding, Connecticut, from
1949 to 1951. Fitzgerald's wife at the time, Sally Fitzgerald, compiled
O'Connor's essays and letters after O'Connor's death. 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
was married three times. He later moved to Hamden, Connecticut, where
he died at his home after a long illness.