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Creator: | Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005. |
Title: | Richard Eberhart Collection |
Inclusive Dates: | 1963-1966 |
Quantity: | 3 items (SC). |
Abstract: | Papers of the American poet. One letter and two items of printed material. |
Language: | English |
Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) was a prize-winning American poet. Over his career he published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. Eberhart won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for Selected Poems: 1930-1965 and a National Book Award in 1977 for Collected Poems: 1930-1976.
The Richard Eberhart Collection consists of correspondence and published items. Correspondence is one letter to Gordon Lish. Published material contains copies of an essay and poetry by Eberhart.
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Richard Eberhart Collection
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Created by: KM
Date: 16 Jul 1987
Revision history: 16 Jul 2008 - converted to EAD (MRC)
Correspondence | |||||||||||
SC 19 | to Lish, Gordon 4 Nov 1963 |
Published material | |||||||||||
SC 19 | "The Vastness and Indifference of the World" (poem) - 1 of 300 copies, inscribed by author to Syracuse University | ||||||||||
SC 19 | 25 Dartmouth Poems - includes introductory essay "Notes on Poetry" and a Postscript by Eberhart; signed |