Word: homers
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Fitzgerald is best known for his fast-paced, soaring 1961 translation of Homer's Odyssey. He has written three books of his own wide-ranging poetry, but in recent years, living in Italy, he has devoted himself largely to critical writing and visiting lectures at U.S. colleges. A graduate of Choate and Harvard and a student at Cambridge's Trinity College, he worked for the New York Herald Tribune before joining TIME from 1936 to 1949, mainly as a book reviewer. He went to Harvard's English department to lecture on comparative literature only last fall, considers...
...connection with the Quincy Holmes Arts Festival, Robert S. '33, newly-appointed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will from his translations of Homer and speak on the art of translation at tonight in the Quincy House Common Room...
...recently finished editing a collection of poems by James Agee, and next fall plans to begin a verse translation of Homer's "Iliad." At the same time, he will start another volume of poetry...
Fitzgerald is widely known as a translator of classical Greek writings. He has translated into English Homer's "Odyssey," Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," and, with Dudely Fitts, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," Sophocles' "Antigone" and Euripides "Alcestis." In 1961 he won the first Bollingen Award for Translation for his work on Homer's "Odyssey...
...Homer thus described the 20 threewheeled chariots built in a single day by the Greek god of fire, Hephaestus, the master craftsman who dwelt on Mount Olympus. Though ordinary Greek chariots lacked the gift of self-propulsion, the Greeks once led the ancient world in the production of wheeled vehicles. For the past several millennia, however, the Greek vehicle industry has been in quite a slump. In modern times, while such smaller nations as Portugal and Israel have managed to produce autos of their own, Greece has had no automotive industry...