
Since his work first appeared in Poetry, Robert Fitzgerald's controlled yet lyric voice, his intimacy with the classic tradition, have gained for him a distinguished reputation as poet and translator. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard since 1965, Fitzgerald spends a...

In Spring Shade, he brings together all of his previous collections-Poems (1935), A Wreath for the Sea(1943), In the Rose of Time (1956)-and adds to them two dozen later poems and a generous sampling from the wide range of his translations.