Of Poetry and Poets

by Richard Eberhart

Samples of this American poet's criticism of Frost, Stevens, Pound, Auden, and Thomas, as well as Eberhart's advice on writing and teaching poetry are gathered here

312 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1979

About the author

In his varied, century-long life, Eberhart was a tutor in the household of the king of Siam (Thailand), the vice-president of his wife's family floor wax company and poet-in-residence at Dartmouth College, N.H. But he was chiefly a poet and teacher, one of the most prominent of the group which came to notice in the years before Wold War II, publishing his first book of poetry, A Bravery of Earth, in 1930.
Eberhart reached the pinnacle of his success in the 1960s and 1970s, when he won the Pulitzer Prize (1966) and the National Book Award (1977) for poetry collections.

Reviews

[Jack Coleman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked this book up at the local book sale.Turned out to be a gem!
The author whom i had never heard of turned out to be an eminent American Poet.This man is quitely
religious and it reflects in his writing.He has had a long career in education and his quite culture
is not preachy.
Great insites into some past and contemporary poets.