Richard Eberhart

Richard Ghormley Eberhart ( born April 5, 1904 in Austin, Minnesota; † 9 June 2005 in Hanover, New Hampshire) was an American writer.

Life

Eberhart received his education at various universities. He attended Dartmouth College ( BA), St. John 's College at the University of Cambridge (BA, MA) and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. After his return from England, he was appointed tutor for the son of the Thai King Prajadhipok. During World War II he did his military service. In 1941 he married Helen Elizabeth Butcher. After the war he worked in the family of his wife, but took off in 1952 began teaching again. He taught, inter alia, at the University of Washington, Princeton and from 1956 to the mid-1980s at Dartmouth College.

For Selected Poems, 1930-1965, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the category of poetry.

Works (selection)

  • A Bravery of Earth (1930 )
  • Undercliff (1953 )
  • Shifts of Being (1968 )
  • Ways of Light ( 1980)

Poetry

  • Collected verse plays ( 1962)
  • Selected Poems, 1930-1965 (1965 )
  • Collected Poems, 1930-1976 (1976 )
  • The Long Reach: New and Uncollected Poems, 1948-1984 (1984 )
  • New and Selected Poems: 1930-1990 (1990 )
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