David Ferry

David Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1924. He completed his education at Amherst College and Harvard University, and served as a sergeant in the United States Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946.

Ferry’s books of poetry and translation are Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 2012); The Georgics of Virgil (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006); His Epistles of Horace: A Translation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001); Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 1999); The Eclogues of Virgil (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999); The Odes of Horace: A Translation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998); Dwelling Places: Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 1993); Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992); Strangers: A Book of Poems (University of Chicago Press, 1983); On the Way to the Island (Wesleyan University Press, 1960); and The Limits of Mortality: An Essay on Wordsworth’s Major Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1959).

Ferry died at the age of ninety-nine on November 5, 2023.

(Biography from poets.org.)