Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, literary critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students". [1 ] He was best…
Australian Orchids made FitzGerald famous in the botanical world and Joseph Dalton Hooker another botanist, considered the work one "which would be an honour to any country and to any Botanist". [4 ]
Robert Fitzgerald was an American poet, educator, and critic who was best known for his translations of Greek classics. Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and attended Harvard University, from which he received a B.A.