- Henry S. Taylor
Henry S. Taylor (born 1942) is a
Pulitzer Prize winning American poet and author of over 15 books of poetry.Taylor was born on
21 June 1942 in ruralLoudoun County, Virginia . He went to high school atGeorge School inNewtown, PA . He graduated from theUniversity of Virginia in 1965 and received his MFA fromHollins University (formerly Hollins College) in 1966.He taught literature and co-directed the MFA program in creative writing at
American University from 1971-2003.Taylor won the
Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986 for his book "The Flying Change".=Bibliography=
*"Crooked Run", Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
*"Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews", Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
*"Electra" (a verse translation of Sophocles’ play in Sophocles I), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
*"Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986-1996", Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
*"Curculio" (a translation of the play by Titus Maccius Plautus in Plautus: The Comedies, Volume 1), Johns Hopkins University Press.
*"Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets", Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
*"The Flying Change", Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
*"The Children of Herakles", Oxford University Press, 1982.
*"The Water of Light: A Miscellany in Honor of Brewster Ghiselen", University of Utah Press, 1976.
*"An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards", University of Utah Press, 1974.
*"Poetry: Points of Departure", Winthrop, 1974.
*"Breakings", Solo Press, 1969.
*"The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards", Louisiana State University Press, 1965.External links
* [http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/six/taylor6.htm Interview with Taylor in the Courtland Review]
* [http://www.hollins.edu/grad/eng_writing/books/bookfrm.htm List of books by Hollins alumni]
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