Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Stuart Fitzgeraldwas an American poet, 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. In addition, he also composed several books of his own poetry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 October 1910
CountryUnited States of America
american-author course enjoy examples great
Of course anything can happen, and as we know there are a great many examples of the other way of doing it, but I myself don't think I would enjoy it.
american-author
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
bargain react stocks
There are probably 20 different stocks ... I will be bargain hunting, ... on how they react to the upcoming correction.
poetry elegance revelations
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
stories muse
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
wind weather light
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.
doe performers particular
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
latin greek different
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.
translate courses knows
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
beauty wish piercings
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
encouragement facts needs
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
latin vocabulary use
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
over-you way poet
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
grateful thinking
I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.