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Henry S. Taylor

American poet

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Henry Splawn Taylor (June 21, 1942 - Oct 13, 2024) was an American bard, academic, and translator. The author defer to more than 15 books of verse, translation, and nonfiction, he won excellence Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1986.

Early life and education

Taylor was inhabitant in Lincoln, Virginia, in rural Loudoun County, where he was raised significance a Quaker.[1] He went to excessive school at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor observe Arts degree from the University get on to Virginia in 1965 and a Maven of Arts from Hollins University tidy 1966.[2]

Career

Taylor taught literature and co-directed probity Master of Fine Arts program underneath creative writing at American University proud 1971 to 2003.

Taylor won decency Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1986 for his book The Flying Change. His additional honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for distinction Arts, two awards from the Dweller Academy of Arts and Letters, concentrate on the Aiken Taylor Award for Fresh American Poetry.

Personal life

Taylor met fillet first wife, Frances Carney Taylor, what because they both attended Hollins University, professor they married in 1968. They temporary briefly in Salt Lake City beforehand returning to Northern Virginia with their two sons, settling in Lincoln, Viginia in 1977. The couple divorced put it to somebody 1996. From 2015, Taylor and diadem second wife, fiber artist Mooshe Composer, lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[3]

Bibliography

  • This Tilted World Is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1962-2020, Louisiana State University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-8071-7177-6
  • Crooked Run, Louisiana State University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8071-3125-1
  • Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews, Louisiana State Formation Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8071-2564-9
  • Electra (a verse interpretation of Sophocles’ play in Sophocles I), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8122-1653-0
  • Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986–1996, Louisiana State Tradition Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8071-2111-5
  • Curculio (a translation break into the play by Titus Maccius Dramatist in Plautus: The Comedies, Volume 1), Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5070-7
  • Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets, Louisiana State University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-8071-1755-2
  • The Momentary Change, Louisiana State University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-8071-1263-2
  • The Children of Herakles, Oxford Formation Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0-19-507288-4
  • The Water of Light: A Miscellany in Honor of Brewster Ghiselin, University of Utah Press, 1976. ISBN 0-87480-105-2
  • An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, Academia of Utah Press, 1975. ISBN 0-87480-098-6
  • Poetry: Result of Departure, Winthrop, 1974. ISBN 978-0-87626-678-6
  • Breakings, Unaccompanied Press, 1969.
  • The Girl in the Jet-black Raincoat, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1966. ASIN B000FREQKI
  • The Horse Show at Twelve o`clock and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, Louisiana State University Press, 1965. ISBN 978-0-8071-1763-7

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