Richard G. Eberhart

April 5, 1904 (age 101)

Austin, Minnesota, United States

Tutor son of King Prajadhipok of Siam, 1930-1931. Master English, St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts, 1933-1941. Teacher English, Cambridge School, Kendal Green, 1941-1942. Visiting professor English, poet in residence University Washington, 1952-1953. Professor English, University Connecticut, 1953-1954. Wheaton visiting professor English, poet-in-residence Wheaton College, 1954-1955. Resident fellow (professor) in creative writing and Christian Gauss lecturer Princeton University, 1955-1956. Professor English, poet-in-residence Dartmouth College, 1956—1970, Class of 1925 professor, 1968-1971, professor emeritus, 1970—2005. Distinguished visiting professor University Florida, Gainesville, spring 1974, visiting professor. Adjunct professor Columbia University, spring 1975. Regents' professor University California-Davis, fall 1975. With Butcher Polish Company, Boston, vice president, 1952, honorary, 1958, also director. Member Yaddo Corporation, director. Consultant in poetry Library of Congress, 1959-1961, honorary consultant in American letters, 1963-1969. Founder, first president The Poets' Theater, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951. Honorary president 3d World Congress Poets, Baltimore, 1976. Member advisory committee on arts National Cultural Center.

Richard G. Eberhart

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Background

Eberhart, Richard G. was born on April 5, 1904 in Austin, Minnesota, United States. Son of Alpha LaRue and Lena (Lowenstein) Eberhart.

Education

Student, University Minnesota, 1923. AB, Dartmouth College, 1926. Doctor of Letters, Dartmouth College, 1954.

Bachelor, Cambridge University, 1929. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1933. Student graduate school arts and science, Harvard University, 1933.

Doctor of Letters, Skidmore College, 1966. Doctor of Letters, College Wooster, 1969. Doctor of Letters, Colgate University, 1974.

Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Franklin Pierce College, 1978. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, St. Lawrence University, 1985. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Plymouth State College, 1987.

Career

Tutor son of King Prajadhipok of Siam, 1930-1931. Master English, St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts, 1933-1941. Teacher English, Cambridge School, Kendal Green, 1941-1942.

Visiting professor English, poet in residence University Washington, 1952-1953. Professor English, University Connecticut, 1953-1954. Wheaton visiting professor English, poet-in-residence Wheaton College, 1954-1955.

Resident fellow (professor) in creative writing and Christian Gauss lecturer Princeton University, 1955-1956. Professor English, poet-in-residence Dartmouth College, 1956—1970, Class of 1925 professor, 1968-1971, professor emeritus, 1970—2005. Distinguished visiting professor University Florida, Gainesville, spring 1974, visiting professor.

Adjunct professor Columbia University, spring 1975. Regents' professor University California-Davis, fall 1975. With Butcher Polish Company, Boston, vice president, 1952, honorary, 1958, also director.

Member Yaddo Corporation, director. Consultant in poetry Library of Congress, 1959-1961, honorary consultant in American letters, 1963-1969. Founder, first president The Poets' Theater, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951.

Honorary president 3d World Congress Poets, Baltimore, 1976. Member advisory committee on arts National Cultural Center.

Works

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- Maine Poems
  (Richard Eberhart--one of America's most respected and acc...)
- Long Reach
  (Poems deal with truth, religion, nature, thought, the rol...)
- To Eberhart from Ginsberg : A Letter About Howl
  (Limited to 1500 copies, 300 numbered and signed and bound...)
- Burr Oaks
  (Signed hardback book with dust jacket titled BURR OAKS by...)
- Collected Verse Plays
  (These plays are the most original work in the field in re...)
- Thirty-One Sonnets
  (A sonnet sequence written 35 years earlier.)
- Undercliff. Poems 1946-1953.
  (Viereck, Peter Eberhart, Richard. Undercliff - Poems 1946...)
- Shifts of Being. Poems
- Undercliff Poems 1946 1955
- Shifts of being
- SELECTED POEMS / FISHING FOR SNAKES. (3 ASSOCIATION ITEMS) (Inscribed to Holly Stevens, Wallace Stevens' Daughter) Plus a Typed Postcard, Signed. Plus a Signed Broadside "Fishing for Snakes"
- Fishing for snakes
- A Bravery of Earth
- SHIFTS OF BEING First Edition 1st
- Florida poems
- Undercliff Poems 1946 1953 1ST Edition Us
- Negative Capability, Vol. VI, Nos. 2 & 3, Spring/Summer, 1986.
- Undercliff: Poems, 1946-1953
- Undercliff: Poems, 1946-1953 1ED U.S.
- An Herb Basket

Membership

Served from lieutenant to lieutenant Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. Member American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Letters, National Academy Arts and Sciences, Poetry Society of America (honorary president since 1972, Robert Frost medal 1986), Signet Club, Harvard Club, Phi Beta Kappa.

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Married Helen Elizabeth Butcher, August 29, 1941. Children: Richard Butcher, Margaret Ghormley.

Father:: Alpha LaRue Eberhart
Mother:: Lena (Lowenstein) Eberhart
Spouse:: Helen Elizabeth Butcher
child:: Margaret Ghormley Eberhart
child:: Richard Butcher Eberhart

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Born

April 5, 1904

Austin, Minnesota, United States
Died

June 9, 2005 (aged 101)
Nationality
American

Education

1923

University Minnesota , Student
1926

Dartmouth College , Bachelor of Arts
1954

Dartmouth College , Doctor of Letters
1929

Cambridge University , Bachelor of Arts
1933

Cambridge University , Master of Arts
1933

Harvard University , school arts and science , Student
1966

Skidmore College , Doctor of Letters
1969

College Wooster , Doctor of Letters
1974

Colgate University , Doctor of Letters
1978

Franklin Pierce College , Doctor of Humane Letters
1985

St. Lawrence University , Doctor of Humane Letters
1987

Plymouth State College , Doctor of Humane Letters
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Awards

Recipient Guarantors prize Poetry magazine, 1946, Harriet Monroe Memorial prize, 1950. The Golden Rose, Northeast Poetry Society, 1950, Shelley Memorial prize Poetry Society of America, 1951, National Institute Arts and Letters grantee, 1955, Harriet Monroe Poetry award, 1955, Bollingen prize in poetry, Yale University, 1962, President's medallion University Florida, 1977, National Poetry Day award New York Quarterly, 1980, Diploma award World Academy Arts and Letters, 1981, Sarah Josepha Hale award Newport (New Hampshire) Library, 1982, Presidential medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement Dartmouth College, 1990. Named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, 1979-1984. Academy American Poets fellow, 1969. Richard Eberhart Day proclaimed by Governor Rhode Island, 1982. Richard Eberhart Day proclaimed Dartmouth College, 1982. Named Florida ambassador of arts, governor of Florida, 1984, honorary fellow St. John's College, Cambridge, 1986. Recipient Gold medal for poetry President Dartmouth College, 1992.

Recipient Guarantors prize Poetry magazine, 1946, Harriet Monroe Memorial prize, 1950. The Golden Rose, Northeast Poetry Society, 1950, Shelley Memorial prize Poetry Society of America, 1951, National Institute Arts and Letters grantee, 1955, Harriet Monroe Poetry award, 1955, Bollingen prize in poetry, Yale University, 1962, President's medallion University Florida, 1977, National Poetry Day award New York Quarterly, 1980, Diploma award World Academy Arts and Letters, 1981, Sarah Josepha Hale award Newport (New Hampshire) Library, 1982, Presidential medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement Dartmouth College, 1990. Named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, 1979-1984.

Academy American Poets fellow, 1969. Richard Eberhart Day proclaimed by Governor Rhode Island, 1982. Richard Eberhart Day proclaimed Dartmouth College, 1982.

Named Florida ambassador of arts, governor of Florida, 1984, honorary fellow St. John's College, Cambridge, 1986. Recipient Gold medal for poetry President Dartmouth College, 1992.

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