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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Robert_Fitzgerald_portrait.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="342" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Robert Fitzgerald in 1943, by Walker Evans</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Robert Stuart Fitzgerald<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1910-10-12</span>)</span>October 12, 1910</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">January 16, 1985<span style="display:none">(1985-01-16)</span> (aged 74)<br /><a href="/wiki/Hamden,_Connecticut" title="Hamden, Connecticut">Hamden, Connecticut</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Robert Stuart Fitzgerald</b> (12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American <a href="/wiki/Poet" title="Poet">poet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary critic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Translator" class="mw-redirect" title="Translator">translator</a> whose renderings of the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Greek classics</a> "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students".<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was best known as a translator of ancient <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>. He also composed several books of his own poetry. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Fitzgerald&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fitzgerald grew up in <a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Illinois" title="Springfield, Illinois">Springfield, Illinois</a>, and graduated from <a href="/wiki/Choate_Rosemary_Hall" title="Choate Rosemary Hall">The Choate School</a> (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in <a href="/wiki/Wallingford,_Connecticut" title="Wallingford, Connecticut">Wallingford, Connecticut</a>. He entered <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard</a> in 1929, and in 1931 a number of his poems were published in <i><a href="/wiki/Poetry_(magazine)" title="Poetry (magazine)">Poetry</a></i> magazine. After graduating from Harvard in 1933 he became a reporter for the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Herald_Tribune" title="New York Herald Tribune">New York Herald Tribune</a></i> for a year. </p><p>Later he worked for several years for <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>. In 1940, <a href="/wiki/William_Saroyan" title="William Saroyan">William Saroyan</a> lists him among "associate editors" at <i>Time</i> in the play, <i>Love's Old Sweet Song</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers" title="Whittaker Chambers">Whittaker Chambers</a> mentions him as a colleague in his 1952 memoir, <i>Witness</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, he served in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Navy">U.S. Navy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a>. Later he was an instructor at <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Lawrence" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarah Lawrence">Sarah Lawrence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>, poetry editor of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i>. He succeeded <a href="/wiki/Archibald_MacLeish" title="Archibald MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish</a> as <a href="/wiki/Ward_Nicholas_Boylston" title="Ward Nicholas Boylston">Boylston</a> Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard in 1965 and served until his retirement in 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, and a Chancellor of the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_American_Poets" title="Academy of American Poets">Academy of American Poets</a>. From 1984 to 1985 he was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>, a position now known as <a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate_Consultant_in_Poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry">Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Bates_College" title="Bates College">Bates College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fitzgerald is widely known as one of the most poetic translators into the English language. He also served as literary executor to <a href="/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor" title="Flannery O'Connor">Flannery O'Connor</a>, who was a boarder at his home in <a href="/wiki/Redding,_Connecticut" title="Redding, Connecticut">Redding, Connecticut</a>, from 1949 to 1951. Fitzgerald's wife at the time, Sally Fitzgerald, compiled O'Connor's essays and letters after O'Connor's death. <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Fitzgerald" title="Benedict Fitzgerald">Benedict Fitzgerald</a> (who co-wrote the screenplay for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ" title="The Passion of the Christ">The Passion of the Christ</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Mel_Gibson" title="Mel Gibson">Mel Gibson</a>), Barnaby Fitzgerald, and Michael Fitzgerald are sons of Robert and Sally.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fitzgerald was married three times. He later moved to <a href="/wiki/Hamden,_Connecticut" title="Hamden, Connecticut">Hamden, Connecticut</a>, where he died at his home after a long illness.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Fitzgerald&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Translations">Translations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Fitzgerald&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFEuripides1936" class="citation book cs1">Euripides (1936). <i>The Alcestis of Euripides</i>. Translators <a href="/wiki/Dudley_Fitts" title="Dudley Fitts">Dudley Fitts</a>, Robert Fitzgerald. Harcourt, Brace and Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Alcestis+of+Euripides&rft.pub=Harcourt%2C+Brace+and+Company&rft.date=1936&rft.au=Euripides&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSophocles1951" class="citation book cs1">Sophocles (1951). <i>Oedipus Rex</i>. Translators <a href="/wiki/Dudley_Fitts" title="Dudley Fitts">Dudley Fitts</a>, Robert Fitzgerald. Faber and Faber.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Oedipus+Rex&rft.pub=Faber+and+Faber&rft.date=1951&rft.au=Sophocles&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSophocles1954" class="citation book cs1">Sophocles (1954). <i>Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone</i>. Translators David Grene, Robert Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Wyckoff. University of Chicago Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Oedipus+the+King%3B+Oedipus+at+Colonus%3B+Antigone&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=1954&rft.au=Sophocles&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Homer's The Odyssey</i>. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1961.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Homer%27s+The+Odyssey&rft.pub=Farrar%2C+Straus+and+Giroux&rft.date=1961&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHomer1965" class="citation book cs1">Homer (1965). <i>The Odyssey</i>. Translator Robert Fitzgerald. Houghton Mifflin Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Odyssey&rft.pub=Houghton+Mifflin+Company&rft.date=1965&rft.au=Homer&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHomer1998" class="citation book cs1">Homer (1998). <i>The Odyssey</i>. Translator Robert Fitzgerald. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-374-22438-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-374-22438-7"><bdi>978-0-374-22438-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Odyssey&rft.pub=Farrar%2C+Straus+and+Giroux&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-374-22438-7&rft.au=Homer&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHomer1974" class="citation book cs1">Homer (1974). <i>The Iliad</i>. Doubleday.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Iliad&rft.pub=Doubleday&rft.date=1974&rft.au=Homer&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHomer1998" class="citation book cs1">Homer (1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OT9pj8chUbQC&q=Robert+Fitzgerald"><i>The Iliad</i></a>. Translator Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-283405-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-283405-8"><bdi>978-0-19-283405-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Iliad&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-19-283405-8&rft.au=Homer&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DOT9pj8chUbQC%26q%3DRobert%2BFitzgerald&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVirgil1983" class="citation book cs1">Virgil (1983). <i>The Aeneid</i>. Translator Robert Fitzgerald. Random House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-52827-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-394-52827-1"><bdi>0-394-52827-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Aeneid&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=0-394-52827-1&rft.au=Virgil&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poems">Poems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Fitzgerald&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Poems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Poems</i>. Arrow Editions. 1935.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Poems&rft.pub=Arrow+Editions&rft.date=1935&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>A Wreath for the Sea</i>. Arrow editions. 1943.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Wreath+for+the+Sea&rft.pub=Arrow+editions&rft.date=1943&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>In the Rose of Time: Poems, 1939-1956</i>. W W Norton & Co Inc. 1956. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8112-0279-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8112-0279-4"><bdi>978-0-8112-0279-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=In+the+Rose+of+Time%3A+Poems%2C+1939-1956&rft.pub=W+W+Norton+%26+Co+Inc&rft.date=1956&rft.isbn=978-0-8112-0279-4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LRklaJVc_4cC&q=Robert+Fitzgerald"><i>Spring Shade: Poems, 1931-1970</i></a>. New Directions. 1971. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8112-0052-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8112-0052-3"><bdi>978-0-8112-0052-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Spring+Shade%3A+Poems%2C+1931-1970&rft.pub=New+Directions&rft.date=1971&rft.isbn=978-0-8112-0052-3&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DLRklaJVc_4cC%26q%3DRobert%2BFitzgerald&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editor">Editor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Fitzgerald&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Editor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRobert_Fitzgerald1969" class="citation book cs1">Robert Fitzgerald, ed. (1969). <i>The Collected Poems of James Agee</i>. Calder and Boyars. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7145-0887-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7145-0887-0"><bdi>978-0-7145-0887-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Collected+Poems+of+James+Agee&rft.pub=Calder+and+Boyars&rft.date=1969&rft.isbn=978-0-7145-0887-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames_Agee1976" class="citation book cs1">James Agee (1976). Robert Fitzgerald (ed.). <i>The Collected Short Prose of James Agee</i>. Cherokee Publishing Company. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87797-302-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87797-302-7"><bdi>978-0-87797-302-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Collected+Short+Prose+of+James+Agee&rft.pub=Cherokee+Publishing+Company&rft.date=1976&rft.isbn=978-0-87797-302-7&rft.au=James+Agee&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFlannery_O'Connor1969" class="citation book cs1">Flannery O'Connor (1969). Sally Fitzgerald, Robert Fitzgerald (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FL8O0mTosVUC&q=Robert+Fitzgerald"><i>Mystery and manners: occasional prose</i></a>. Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-374-50804-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-374-50804-3"><bdi>978-0-374-50804-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mystery+and+manners%3A+occasional+prose&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=1969&rft.isbn=978-0-374-50804-3&rft.au=Flannery+O%27Connor&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DFL8O0mTosVUC%26q%3DRobert%2BFitzgerald&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFlannery_O'Connor1965" class="citation book cs1">Flannery O'Connor (1965). Sally Fitzgerald, Robert Fitzgerald (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-Sd3OkSndXQC&q=Robert+Fitzgerald"><i>Everything that rises must converge</i></a>. Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-374-50464-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-374-50464-9"><bdi>978-0-374-50464-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Everything+that+rises+must+converge&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=1965&rft.isbn=978-0-374-50464-9&rft.au=Flannery+O%27Connor&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-Sd3OkSndXQC%26q%3DRobert%2BFitzgerald&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Fitzgerald&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mitgang, Herbert (January 17, 1985). Robert Fitzgerald, 74, poet who translated the classics. <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSaroyan1940" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_Saroyan" title="William Saroyan">Saroyan, William</a> (1940). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/lovesoldsweetson013163mbp/lovesoldsweetson013163mbp_djvu.txt"><i>Love's Old Sweet Song: A Play in Three Acts</i></a>. Samuel French. p. 72<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 July</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Love%27s+Old+Sweet+Song%3A+A+Play+in+Three+Acts&rft.pages=72&rft.pub=Samuel+French&rft.date=1940&rft.aulast=Saroyan&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Flovesoldsweetson013163mbp%2Flovesoldsweetson013163mbp_djvu.txt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Fitzgerald" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChambers1952" class="citation book cs1">Chambers, Whittaker (1952). <i>Witness</i>. 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