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.
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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.
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Robert Fitzgerald (23)
Birth: | 12th October, 1910 |
Death: | 16th January, 1985 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Critic, Poet, Translator |
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Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was a 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.
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