Historical marker for poet, translator Robert Fitzgerald unveiled at ISBA Springfield office

Translator, poet and scholar Robert Fitzgerald was honored today with a historical marker on the property of the Illinois State Bar Association in Springfield. Fitzgerald, who would have turned 100 today, grew up in a house on the site of the current ISBA office. Fitzgerald is highly regarded for his English translations of Homer and Virgil. He was the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University and consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, a title eventually renamed National Poet Laureate.