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Richard Eberhart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet considered one of the foremost writers of lyric verse in the 20th century, died on Thursday at his home in Hanover, N.H. He was 101. …

The author of several dozen volumes of poetry, Mr. Eberhart won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for “Selected Poems, 1930-1965″ (New Directions, 1965) and a National Book Award in 1977 for “Collected Poems, 1930-1976″ (Oxford University, 1976).

At his death, Mr. Eberhart was emeritus professor of English at Dartmouth College, where he had taught since 1956. He was also, variously, a crewman on a tramp steamer, a maker of furniture polish and a tutor to the crown prince of Siam.

With their concern for the natural world, and their persistent exploration of the tension between spirit and matter, Mr. Eberhart’s poems hark back to the Romantic tradition of Blake and Wordsworth. (He parted company with full-blown Romanticism through his use of short lines and irregular rhythms.) … Read full obituary

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