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11 nov 2023 · Nov. 11, 2023. David Ferry, a poet and translator whose direct, emotionally resonant work plumbing the chasms between the knowable and the unknowable won him broad praise and honors late in his...
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David Russell Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey, on March 5, 1924. He attended Columbia High School amid the “wild hills” of suburban Maplewood, New Jersey. His undergraduate education at Amherst College was interrupted by his service in the United States Army Air Force during World War II. He ultimately received his B.A. from Amherst in 1946. H...
In 2000, Ferry's book of new and selected poems and translations, entitled Of No Country I Know, received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress (for the best work of poetry for the previous two years). He is the author of a criticall...
For many years, David Ferry has been admired in the U.S. for his translations of Gilgamesh, Horace and Virgil. His original poetry has flourished in the shadow of this other work and he likes to juxtapose translations with his own poems in an acknowledgement of influence and tradition. Elegance, clarity, an avoidance of frills – the Horatian virtue...
The Limits of Mortality: An Essay on Wordsworth's Major Poems Wesleyan University Press, 1959; Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011, ISBN 9781258051549On the Way to the Island Wesleyan University Press, 1960, ISBN 9780819520074Strangers: A Book of Poems. University of Chicago Press. 1983. ISBN 9780226244709. David Ferry.Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992, ISBN 9780374162276- poetry
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David Ferry is an acclaimed American poet, professor, and translator. Ferry’s translations, which include some of the world's major works of poetry, are known for their fluency and grace. In addition to his lauded translations of The Odes of Horace and Virgil’s The Eclogues, Georgics, and The Aeneid, among other works, Ferry is a prize ...
David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern readers to Gilgamesh’s Mesopotamia, to Horace and Virgil’s Rome and to a startling literary landscape that was entirely his...
26 feb 2024 · Courtesy of Wellesley College Archives. David Ferry, Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English, died on Nov. 5, 2023, at the age of 99. David taught at Wellesley for 37 years, from 1952 to 1989.
9 nov 2023 · By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated November 10, 2023, 11:18 a.m. A poet whose translations of Horace and Virgil are revered, David Ferry won the National Book Award in 2012 for “Bewilderment...
David Ferry. 1924 –. 2023. Read poems by this poet. David Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1924. He completed his education at Amherst College and Harvard University, and served as a sergeant in the United States Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946.
