Henry Hart
About the Poet
Henry Hart is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Familiar Ghosts (Orchises Press, 2014) and a forthcoming biography of Robert Frost (Blackwell-Wiley, 2016). He is the author of several critical works on twentieth-century poets, including James Dickey: The World as Lie (St. Martin’s/Picador, 2000), The James Dickey Reader (Simon & Schuster, 1999), Robert Lowell and the Sublime (Syracuse University Press, 1995), Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions (Syracuse University Press, 1991), and The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill (Southern Illinois University Press, 1986).
His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Hart received the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize in 2010. He is the Mildred and J.B. Hickman Professor of English and Humanities at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
From Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts
Region
Hampton Roads
Virginia City or County Affiliation
Williamsburg, Virginia
Current City/State of Residence
Williamsburg, Virginia
Gender
Male
Race/Ethnicity
White
Year of Birth
1954
Published Works or Performances
- The Ghost Ship. Blue Moon,1990.
- The Rooster Mask. University of Illinois Press,1998.
- The James Dickey Reader. Simon,1999.
- James Dickey: The World as a Lie. St. Martin's/Picador 2000.
- Background Radiation. Salt Publishing, 2007.
- Familiar Ghosts. Orchises Press, 2014.
- The Life of Robert Frost: A Critical Biography. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
Selected Individual Poems or Performances
- The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1610, 2002.
- Bed of Nails, 2002.
- Annunciation, 1960, 2016.
- Anniversary in the Lookout Tower, 2019.
- A Teacher's Story, 2019.
Henry Hart