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Alan S. Trueblood served as a professor of Hispanic studies and comparative literature at Brown University and also chaired the Department of Comparative Literature. A noted translator, Trueblood authored translations of the poets Luis de Góngora and Federico García Lorca. He resided in Little Compton, Rhode Island, before passing away on November 10, 2012.
William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927.
Robert Fitzgerald was born on October 12, 1910, in Geneva, New York, but grew up in Springfield, Illinois.
The technical brilliance and formal variety of Elizabeth Bishop's work—rife with precise and true-to-life images—helped establish her as a major force in contemporary literature.
Stephen Mitchell, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943, is a a poet, translator, scholar, and anthologist
Robert Bly was born on December 23, 1926, in Madison, Minnesota.