Anne Ferry News Today

After nearly 40 years as a professor, he began a new career writing poems and translating classics. He won a National Book Award when he was 86.

"I don’t know of an American poet who has had an achievement of this magnitude," poet and professor George Kalogeris said of Mr. Ferry's unusually prolific later years.

With full military honors, the Massachusetts native was buried at the National Cemetery in Bourne. His family received a folded flag, and the closure for which generations had waited.