David Ferry | Autor | LibraryThing

About the Author

David Ferry's "Of No Country I Know: New & Selected Poems & Translations" won the 2000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has translated "The Odes of Horace" (FSG, 1997), "The Eclogues of Virgil" (FSG, 1999), & "Gilgamesh" (FSG, 1992). (Bowker Author Biography)

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Obras por David Ferry

Popular Recente

The Epistles of Horace (1950) 174 exemplares

Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (Phoenix Poets) (2012) 90 exemplares

Wordsworth (Laurel Poetry Series) (1959) — Editor; Editor — 61 exemplares

Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Phoenix Poets Series) (1999) 35 exemplares

Strangers: A Book of Poems (Phoenix Poets) (1983) 13 exemplares

Dwelling places : poems and translations (1993) 9 exemplares

On the Way to the Island (1960) 9 exemplares

The Limits of Mortality: An Essay on Wordsworth's Major Poems (1978) 3 exemplares

The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplar

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Associated Works

The Epic of Gilgamesh (1700) — Tradutor, algumas edições — 9,861 exemplares

The Georgics (0029) — Tradutor, algumas edições — 1,098 exemplares

60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal: Ferry, David Russell
Data de nascimento: 1924-03-05
Data de falecimento: 2023-11-05
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA
Local de nascimento: Orange, New Jersey, USA
Locais de residência: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Educação: Amherst College
Harvard University
Ocupações: Teacher of literature, Wellesley College, Boston
poet
translator
Relações: Ferry, Anne (wife)
Prémios e menções honrosas: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1994)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2001)

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Críticas

Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (Phoenix… por David Ferry

I felt that the translations took away from the original poems. I found myself comparing Virgil's and Ferry's words and styles.

Read the review on my blog here.

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littlebookjockey | 1 outra crítica | Sep 15, 2020 |

Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (Phoenix… por David Ferry

I far preferred his own work to the works he chose to translate.

½

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handy1 | 1 outra crítica | Mar 11, 2013 |

Epistles of Horace por Horace

Edition: // Descr: xxxiii, 442 p. 17 cm. // Series: Call No. { 874 H78 7 c. #1 } Edited with Notes by Augustus S. Wilkins Contains Appendix and Index to the Notes. // //

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ColgateClassics | 1 outra crítica | Oct 26, 2012 |

Epistles of Horace por Horace

Edition: // Descr: xxxiii, 442 p. 16.5 cm. // Series: Call No. { 874 H78 7 c. #2 } Edited with Notes by Augustus S. Wilkins Contains Appendix and Index to the Notes. // //

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ColgateClassics | 1 outra crítica | Oct 26, 2012 |

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