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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 ...
- W.S. Merwin
William Stanley (W.S.) Merwin was born in New York City in...
- Virgil Aeneid Ii, Ii. 250–267
Virgil Aeneid Ii, Ii. 250–267 - David Ferry | Poetry...
- Movie Star Peter at The Supper for Street People
Movie Star Peter at The Supper for Street People - David...
- Photographs From a Book
January 1978 | Paul Backhurst, David Bromwich, David Ferry,...
- Sweets and Suites
Like a luxury hotel, the July/August 2011 issue of Poetry...
- Cythera
April 1971 | Benjamin Bennett, Robert Bly, Henry Braun,...
- A Night-Time River Road
April 1971 | Benjamin Bennett, Robert Bly, Henry Braun,...
- In Eden
In Eden - David Ferry | Poetry Foundation
- W.S. Merwin
- Biography
- Honors and Awards
- Poetry and Translations
- List of Works
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
- Anne Ferry
- Poet, professor
11 nov 2023 · By Clay Risen. 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...
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...
“In this new book, David Ferry shows us that his magnificent translations are as intimately personal as his own poems are heartbreakingly classical. In his wisdom, his self-awareness, his humor at the ways of the world, he has become our Horace.
4 ago 2018 · English. xvii, 293 pages ; 23 cm. Represents David Ferry's poetry and his translations of other poems by Holderlin, Goethe, Montale, Catullus, a Babylonian hymn, Ronsard, Guillen, Baudelaire, Rilke, Goliardic, Gilgamesh, the odes of Horace, the eclogues of Virgil, and two epistles of Horace.
But even though legions of poets, as far back as Catullus, have woven translations into their books, the passages Ferry curates come together with a fierce expressive urgency: finding in another poet, writing in a different language, a text that voices what he most needs to say himself, the way a musician might need to play a certain score, or ...
