{"product_id":"the-third-kind-of-knowledge-penelope-laurans-fitzgerald-9780811210560","title":"The Third Kind of Knowledge: Selected Writings","description":"The memoirs and essays collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Third Kind of Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e encompass the many lives of a remarkable man. Poet, translator, critic, journalist, memoirist, scholar-the late Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) had an unusual range of gifts and lived a strikingly varied life in the literary and academic world. While growing up, his scholarly promise earned the attention of his mentor in classical studies, Dudley Fitts, and his poetic gifts the admiration first of Vachel Lindsay and later of T. S. Eliot (who took some of his college poems for publication in the \u003cem\u003eCriterion\u003c\/em\u003e). A reporter for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e in the thirties, Fitzgerald also spent time before and after the Second World War as a part of Henry Luce's literary stable at \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e, where he forged his close friendship with James Agee and edited the Books Department for the magazine. His friendship with Agee, and also with Flannery O'Connor (whose literary executor he became) as well as with other literary figures such as John Berryman, Allen Tate, and Caroline Gordon flourished during this period. In the early fifties he moved with his family to Italy, where he worked for six years on his celebrated translation of the Odyssey. His other classical translations-\u003cem\u003ethe Illiad\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe Aeneid\u003c\/em\u003e, and his translations of Euripides and Sophocles, several done in collaboration with Dudley Fitts-have become the the signal translations of our time. A renowned teacher as well as poet and scholar, Fitzgerald taught, over the years, at such institutions as Sarah Lawrence, Princeton, The New School, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Washington. His career culminated at Harvard where, in 1965, he was named Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. For fifteen years his course in Versification influenced a generation of younger poets, and his seminar in \"Homer, Virgil, and Dante\" a generation of young scholars. \u003cem\u003eThe Third Kind of Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e displays the unusual breadth of Fitzgerald's achievement and includes personal memoirs, reminiscences of literary friends, literary criticism of classical literature, and an interview on the art of translation. This volume has been prepared by his widow, Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald, following a plan begun by the author before his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald, Robert Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811210561\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811210560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.23w x 1.19d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/1993 pg. 966\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/04\/1993","brand":"Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46052200677631,"sku":"9780811210560","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_707dded1-5bd6-47d1-8856-8b2cc9b37f76.jpg?v=1723555632","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-third-kind-of-knowledge-penelope-laurans-fitzgerald-9780811210560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}