RARE “American Poet" Robert Fitzgerald Hand Written Note on Harvard Letterhead for Sale

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RARE “American Poet" Robert Fitzgerald Hand Written Note on Harvard Letterhead:
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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