Richard Eberhart

Biography

Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) won the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems, 1930-1965 and the 1977 National Book Award in poetry for Collected Poems, 1930-1976. From 1959 to 1961, Eberhart served as the Library of Congress’s Consultant in Poetry and was awarded a Bollingen Prize in 1962.

See Work

POETRY / Winter 1960

The Passage

By Richard Eberhart
CRITICISM / Winter 1939

Poets and the European Sickness

By Richard Eberhart
Winter 1980

Time’s Clickings

By Richard Eberhart
POETRY / Spring 1975

Incidence of Flight

By Richard Eberhart

I spring joy out of my rib cage
Like a flash of pigeons flying North
South here in Mississippi, Florida