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David Russell Ferry (March 5, 1924 – November 5, 2023) was an American poet, translator, and educator. He published eight collections of his poetry and a volume of literary criticism. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2012 collection Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations.
David William Ferrie (March 28, 1918 – February 22, 1967) was an American pilot who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
Learn about David Ferry, an American poet, professor, and translator who won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2012. Explore his translations of Horace, Virgil, and other ancient poets, as well as his own collections of poems.
Nov 11, 2023 · 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 honors late...
Learn about David Ferry, a prolific and acclaimed poet and translator who died in 2023. Explore his books of poetry and translation, including his National Book Award-winning Bewilderment, and his essays on Wordsworth.
David Ferry, Ph.D. ’55, is a Harvard alumnus who won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2012 for his collection Bewilderment. He has also translated Virgil, Horace, and other ancient poets, and explores themes of loss, memory, and identity in his own poems.
Nov 11, 2023 · 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...
