Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (1910 –1985) was an American poet, literary critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students".
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He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. He also composed several books of his own poetry. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. From 1984 to 1985 he was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, the United States' equivalent of a national poet laureate, but did not serve due to illness. In 1984 Fitzgerald received a L.H.D. from Bates College.
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