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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart

Fitts, Dudley (1903–68), instructor of English at Phillips Academy, Andover, was well known for colloquial metrical translations of Aristophanes' plays, Lysistrata (1954), The Frogs (1955), The Birds (1957), and Ladies' Day (1959), a version of Thesmophoriazusae . With Robert Fitzgerald he translated Euripides' Alcestis (1935) and Sophocles' Oedipus (1949), and he also wrote other translations as well as original poetry. He edited the Yale Series of Younger Poets (1960–68).

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