Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald in 1943, by Walker Evans
BornRobert Stuart Fitzgerald
(1910-10-12)October 12, 1910
Geneva, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 16, 1985(1985-01-16) (aged 74)
Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA)

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". He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. He also composed several books of his own poetry.