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(b. 1924)

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David Ferry
Image: Brian Crowley

Attended Harvard (A.M. 1949; Ph.D. 1955) Sort
 
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ADDITIONAL LINKS

 
Googlebooks: Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
 
Googlebooks: The Odes of Horace: A Translation (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997)
 
The New Criterion: "Reading David Ferry's poems by Rachel Hadas" (February 2000)
 
BU Today: "Readings to Go: David Ferry, the Award-Winning Poet Reads His Translations and Poetry" (May 14, 2007)
 
Slate Magazine: "A weekly Poem, Read by the Author: 'The White Skunk' by David Ferry" (Nov. 25, 2008)
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