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Also Known As Robert Stuart Fitzgerald
Born October 12, 1910 • Geneva • New York
Died January 16, 1985 (aged 74) • Hamden • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1961)
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Horace Gregory
American poet and critic
Andrew Lang
British scholar
Murray, Gilbert
Gilbert Murray
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H.D.
H.D.
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Louis Zukofsky
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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
Dudley Fitts
American teacher, critic, poet and translator
Pound, Ezra
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Anthony Hecht
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American poet
Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston
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Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
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Lafcadio Hearn
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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