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Robert Fitzgerald

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That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.


— Robert Fitzgerald


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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.


— Robert Fitzgerald


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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.


— Robert Fitzgerald


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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.


— Robert Fitzgerald


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Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.


— Robert Fitzgerald


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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.


— Robert Fitzgerald


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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.


— Robert Fitzgerald


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Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.


— Robert Fitzgerald


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About Robert Fitzgerald






Did you know about Robert Fitzgerald?

Later he was an instructor at Sarah Lawrence and Princeton University poetry editor of The New Republic. Translators David Grene Robert Fitzgerald Elizabeth Wyckoff. He succeeded Archibald MacLeish as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus at Harvard in 1965 and served until his retirement in 1981.

In addition he also composed several books of his own poetry. Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was a poet critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students.

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