![]() ![]() ![]() Ferry credits his professors at Amherst with making him bookish and admits he read spottily as a child. He entered the Air Force after his freshman year at Amherst College, returning to complete his degree in 1948. Bewilderment was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, 2012. David Ferry was born in 1924 in Orange, New Jersey. Ferry’s translations, which include some of the worlds major works of poetry are known for their fluency and grace. (Hon.), Amherst College, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Prize, an Academy Award for Literature, The 2000 Lenore Marshall Prize, the 2000 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize, and he was a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1924 David Ferry is an acclaimed American poet, professor, and translator. Ferry’s prizes and awards include The National Book Award, The Ruth B Lilly Prize, D.Litt. He is currently translating the Aeneid of Virgil. His translations include The Georgics of Virgil, The Epistles of Horace, The Eclogues of Virgil, The Odes of Horace (1997), and Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse. Ferry’s most recent books of poetry are Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations and On This Side of the River: Selected Poems. ![]() Lowell Lecture Poetry Days presents a Reading by David Ferry from his Poems and Translation Date & Timeġ40 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467ĭavid Ferry is Hart Professor of English, Emeritus, at Wellesley College since his retirement from Wellesley he has frequently been a Visiting Lecturer in the Boston University graduate Creative Writing Program he is currently a “Distinguished Visiting Scholar” at Suffolk University. ![]()
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