[Letter and poems] / Richard Eberhart. [1958-1963]

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[Letter and poems] / Richard Eberhart. [1958-1963]

Letter, 1963 Sep. 14, 5 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N.H. sending manuscripts of two poems to the Smith College Library. The poems (holographs) appeared in The quarry. New York : Oxford University Press, 1964. -- Winter kill, dated 1958 Dec. 17. -- Contemplation, dated 1959 May 19. Mss. include Eberhart's changes and corrections, and carry his signature dated, Sep. 1963.

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Eberhart, Richard Ghormley, 1904-2005

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Distinguished poet Richard Eberhart was born in Minnesota, and lived an idyllic life until experiencing the twin shocks of family financial crisis and his mother's death; his verse was significantly influenced by these experiences, and he would later cite his mother's death as the moment he became a poet. Eberhart was educated at the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth, Cambridge, and Harvard; he later worked various jobs as a tutor and educator, served in the naval reserve in World War II, and w...