#  David Ferry 

 



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







    











  [Academy of American Poets Biography](http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/332) 











    











  [The Poetry Foundation Biography](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80614) 











    











  



 





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    **General Overview** 











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   ##  ADDITIONAL LINKS 

 











    











  [Googlebooks: *Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations*](http://books.google.com/books?id=WXRFpW6bVzYC&printsec=frontcover) (University of Chicago Press, 1999) 











    











  [Googlebooks: *The Odes of Horace: A Translation*](http://books.google.com/books?id=eD8yCs7J7jMC&printsec=frontcover) (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997) 











    











  [*The New Criterion*: "Reading David Ferry's poems by Rachel Hadas"](http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/readingdavidferryspoems-hadas-2718) (February 2000) 











    











  [BU Today: "Readings to Go: David Ferry, the Award-Winning Poet Reads His Translations and Poetry"](http://www.bu.edu/today/arts-entertainment/2007/09/16/readings-go-david-ferry) (May 14, 2007) 











    











  [*Slate Magazine*: "A weekly Poem, Read by the Author: 'The White Skunk' by David Ferry"](http://www.slate.com/id/2200521/) (Nov. 25, 2008)