Dudley Fitts
American writer and academic
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| Intro | American writer and academic | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Critic Literary critic Poet Translator | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 28 April 1903, Boston | |
| Death | 10 July 1968Lawrence (aged 65 years) |
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Dudley Fitts (April 28, 1903 – July 10, 1968) was an American teacher, critic, poet, and translator. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Harvard University where he edited the Harvard Advocate. He taught at The Choate School 1926–1941 and at Phillips Academy at Andover 1941–1968. He and his former student at Choate, Robert Fitzgerald, published translations of Alcestis of Euripides (1936), Antigone of Sophocles (1939), Oedipus Rex (1949), and The Oedipus Cycle (1949). Their translations were praised for their clarity and poetic quality.
He died in Andover, Massachusetts.