Eberhart, Richard [Ghormley]
Eberhart, Richard [Ghormley]( 1904–2005),Minnesota-born poet, educated at Dartmouth and Cambridge, has taught there and at schools and colleges, and since 1956 has been a professor of English and poet in residence at Dartmouth. His poetry assumes a variety of forms, ranging from romantic description to allegory, and is marked by intensity, honesty, and precision of diction. It includes A Bravery of Earth (1930), partly about his world tour on a freight steamer; Reading the Spirit (1937); Song and Idea (1942); Burr Oaks (1947); Brotherhood of Man (1949); An Herb Basket (1950); Undercliff (1953); Great Praises (1957); The Quarry (1964); Thirty One Sonnets (1967), written in his youth; Shifts of Being (1968); Fields of Grace (1972); Poems to Poets (1976); and Collected Poems (1976). Since then he has collected poetry in The Long Reach...
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