I lived from 1904-2005.
I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
Richard Ghormley Eberhart was born April 5, 1904, Austin, Minnesota. He served in the Navy during WWII. He went to University of Minnesota, got his B.A. at Dartmouth College in 1926, went to and graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge University in 1929, he received his M.A. there in 1933, and he also went to and graduated from Harvard University. He was a professor at Dartmouth College from 1956 to 1970.
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He was known to be a small concavity as a poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 for Selected Poems: 1930-1965. He also shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1962 and received an award for National Book Award for Poetry 1977 for his Pulitzer Prize winning Collected Poems: 1930-1976.
His Books are:
A Bravery of Earth (1930, poetry)
Reading the Spirit (1937, poetry)
Song and Idea (1942, poetry)
Poems: New and Selected (1945, poetry)
Burr Oaks (1947, poetry)
Brotherhood of Men (1949, poetry)
Undercliff: Poems 1946-1953 (1953, poetry)
Great Praises (1957, poetry)
Collected Verse Plays (1962, poetry)
The Quarry: New Poems (1964, poetry)
Selected Poems: 1930-1965 (1965, poetry)
Shifts of Being (1968, poetry)
Collected Poems: 1930-1976 (1976, poetry)
Of Poetry and Poets (1979, criticism)
The Long Reach: New and Uncollected Works 1948-1984 (1984, poetry)
New and Selected Poems: 1930-1990 (1990, poetry)
He died in Hanover, New Hampshire on June 9, 2005, he was 101 years old.
biblio: nndb.com
My poetry
I stood out in the open cold
To see the essence of the eclipse
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In June, amid the golden fields,
I saw a groundhog lying dead.
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You would think the fury of aerial bombardment
Would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces
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My death was arranged by special plans in Heaven
And only occasioned comment by ten persons in Adams, Massachusetts.
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The spider expects the cold of winter.
When the shadows fall in long Autumn
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Is made up of reservoirs,
Birds flying South, mailmen
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