David Ferry

Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English at Wellesley College, Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Boston University, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author of numerous books of poetry and translation, including His Epistles of Horace: A Translation (2001), Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (1999), The Eclogues of Virgil (1999), The Odes of Horace: A Translation (1998), Dwelling Places: Poems and Translations (1993), Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse (1992), Strangers: A Book of Poems (1983), On the Way to the Island (1960), and The Limits of Mortality: An Essay on Wordsworth’s Major Poems (1959). Recipient of (among others) a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Bingham Poetry Prize from Boston Book Review, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Sixtieth Fellowship of The Academy of American Poets, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, the Teasdale Prize for Poetry, the Ingram Merrill Award, and the William Arrowsmith Translation Prize from AGNI magazine.