Background
Taylor was born in Lincoln, Virginia, in rural Loudoun County, where he was raised as a Quaker.
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Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986--1996
(1996 LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTCOVER)
1996 LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTCOVER
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Crooked Run: Poems
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Book by Taylor, Henry
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The Horse Show at Midnight and an Afternoon of Pocket Billiards: Poems Paperback - December 1, 1992
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(The Horse Show at Midnight) Author: Henry Taylor published on (April, 1992)
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Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews 1st edition by Taylor, Henry (2000) Paperback
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Afternoon of Pocket Billiards: Poems
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(Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986-96) Author: Henry Taylor published on (October, 1996)
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Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets
(Book by Taylor, Henry)
Book by Taylor, Henry
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The Horse Show At Midnight: Poems
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Book by Taylor, Henry
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The Flying Change: Poems
(In Henry Taylor's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection ...)
In Henry Taylor's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry, The Flying Change, he writes the poems of a country squire -- immersing himself in the beauty of the Blue Ridge mountains, pleasures for which a real farmer has neither the time or inclination. An anti-modernist in pursuit of states of grace, Taylor revels in such things as a "frisbee floating like milkweed," women's hands and "the charming old songs in their illegible syllables." His affection for his region is faithful and unmixed, and produces sweet variety in his moderate pastoral.
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The Horse Show at Midnight (Paperback) - Common
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The Horse Show at Midnight and an Afternoon of Pocket Billiards
( Although many Indian nations fought in the Civil War, h...)
Although many Indian nations fought in the Civil War, historians have given little attention to the role Native Americans played in the conflict. Indian nations did, in fact, suffer a higher percentage of casualties than any Union or Confederate state, and the war almost destroyed the Cherokee Nation. In The Confederate Cherokees, W. Craig Gaines provides an absorbing account of the Cherokees' involvement in the early years of the Civil War, focusing in particular on the actions of one group, John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles. As the war began, The Cherokees were torn by internal political dissension and a simmering thirty-year-old blood feud. Entry into the war on the Confederate side did little to resolve these intratribal tensions. One faction, loyal to Chief John Ross, formed a regiment led by John Drew, Ross's nephew by marriage. Another regiment was formed by Ross's rival, Stand Watie. The Watie regiment was largely por-Confederate, whereas many of Drew's soldiers, though fighting for the Confederate cause, were secretly members of a pro-Union, antislavery society known as the Keetoowahs. They had little sympathy for the southern whites, who had driven them from their ancestral homelands in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Drew's regiment nonetheless earned a degree of infamy during the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, for scalping Union soldiers. Gaines writes not only about the actions of Drew's regiment but about military events in the Indian Territory in general. United action was almost impossible because of continuing factionalism within the tribes and the desertion of many Indians to the Union forces. Desertion was so high that Drew's regiment was effectively disbanded by mid-1862, and the soldiers did not complete their one-year enlistment. Drew's regiment bears the distinction of being the only Confederate regiment to lose almost its entire membership through desertion to the Union ranks. Gaines's solidly researched, ground-breaking history of this ill-fated band of Cherokees will be of interest to Civil War buffs and students of Native American history alike.
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Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews
( Not since W. H. Auden's Academic Graffiti has a poet of...)
Not since W. H. Auden's Academic Graffiti has a poet of serious substance indulged so thoroughly in clerihews, those miniature (and often outrageously fictional) biographies invented just over 100 years ago by E. C. Bentley (1875--1956). In Brief Candles, Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor takes on with hilarious irreverence people usually taken most seriously -- members of the Supreme Court, poets laureate, literary theorists, Whitewater celebrities, and New Testament figures -- demonstrating through 101 clerihews that one of the primary purposes of poetry is to have fun, even while craftsmanship remains paramount. Taylor's shimmering wit and resourceful use of rhyme combine with whimsical illustrations by Heather Alexander to make these tiny playful pieces a rare treat for all readers. In times of tribulation, we can read the Book of Lamentations, or the Psalms, or just as likely, Henry Taylor's clerihews. They are, as he calls them, Brief Candles, but they do give a satisfying light.
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Henry Splawn Taylor
Edit ProfileEducation
He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1965 and received his Master of Arts He taught literature and co-directed the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at American University from 1971–2003.
Career
He went to high school at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania. from Hollins University (formerly Hollins College) in 1966.
Achievements
Works
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The Flying Change: Poems
(In Henry Taylor's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection ...)
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The Horse Show at Midnight and an Afternoon of Pocket Billiards
( Although many Indian nations fought in the Civil War, h...)
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The Horse Show at Midnight (Paperback) - Common
(Herodiani Historici Graeci Libri Octo AB Angelo Politiano...)
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Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986--1996
(1996 LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTCOVER)
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Crooked Run: Poems
(Book by Taylor, Henry)
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Afternoon of Pocket Billiards: Poems
(Book by Taylor, Henry)
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Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets
(Book by Taylor, Henry)
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The Horse Show At Midnight: Poems
(Book by Taylor, Henry)
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Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews
( Not since W. H. Auden's Academic Graffiti has a poet of...)
- Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billards
- The Horse Show at Midnight and an Afternoon of Pocket Billiards: Poems Paperback - December 1, 1992
- (The Horse Show at Midnight) Author: Henry Taylor published on (April, 1992)
- Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews 1st edition by Taylor, Henry (2000) Paperback
- (Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986-96) Author: Henry Taylor published on (October, 1996)
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The Flying Change: Poems
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Recipient Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, 1986, Michael Braude award for light verse, American Academy Arts and Letters, 2002, Aiken Taylor award in Modern American Poetry, 2004. Fellow, National Endowment Arts, 1978, 1986. Grantee, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1980-1981.Recipient Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, 1986, Michael Braude award for light verse, American Academy Arts and Letters, 2002, Aiken Taylor award in Modern American Poetry, 2004. Fellow, National Endowment Arts, 1978, 1986. Grantee, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1980-1981.