Horace Gregory

Horace Gregory (April 10, 1898 – March 11, 1982) was an American poet, translator of classical poetry, literary critic and college professor. He was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1965.

Quotes

• My boyhood saw
  Greek islands floating over Harvard Square:
  Homer, the blind head sleeping
  In celestial seas;
  Everett, the voice, asking whose lips were these
  Come out of time to breathe our native air?
  • Chorus for Survival (1935), p. 85 [Gloss: The Emerson family fireside.]

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Horace Gregory on Wikipedia